Further Exploration of the Factorium

Monday, August 16, 2010

Languanologue # 1

In this broad 15 day series, we will focus on statistics with Language, the spoken form of conversation ubiquitous among Mankind. Today we will see about the most spoken languages in the world.

1. Mandarin - 1,205 Million speakers, also Mandarin is spoken by at least 5 % of 5 countries' population natively.

2. Spanish - 429 Million speakers, spoken widely in about 25 countries.

3. English - 428 Million speakers, considered the global language as it is spoken ubiquitously around the world.

4. Hindi - 382 Million speakers, spoken dominantly in India, it is also spoken in parts of 7 other countries.

5. French - 300 Million speakers in about 40 countries.

Tomorrow we will have a list of other languages included in the top-20 list.

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