Further Exploration of the Factorium

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Languanologue # 2

Today, continuing our Languanologue series, we have the remainder of the list of 20-widely spoken languages around the world. We will continue the list from the number 6, as we saw the top 5 languages yesterday.

6. Arabic - 265 Million speakers
7. Malay - 250 Million speakers
8. Portuguese - 240 Million speakers
9. Bengali - 193 Million speakers
10. Russian - 144 Million speakers
11. Japanese - 122 Million speakers
12. German - 101 Million speakers
13. Punjabi - 89 Million speakers
14. Javanese - 75.5 Million speakers
15. Telugu - 70 Million speakers
16. Marathi - 68 Million speakers
17. Vietnamese - 67.4 Million speakers
18. Korean - 67 Million speakers
19. Tamil - 66 Million speakers
20. Italian - 65.5 Million speakers

All data for the last 2 days' facts was world according to the Ethonologue, a widely cited reference for languages around the world.

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