The Top Ten Spoken Languages of the World

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Of the more than 6000 languages spoken around the globe, these are the ten languages spoken by major ethnic, religious, cultural and national groups. This is a great introduction for many types of language or culture-related classes.Have fun with it!

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The TOP TEN LANGUAGES

of the WORLD

For you is learning English:

- a pleasure - an investment - a problem - a hobby - a necessity - a pain - an opportunity - an effort - a nightmare

Chinese: 726 million native speakers

English:427 million native speakers

Spoken in: England U.S.A.

South Africa Trinidad & Tobago

Jamaica Canada

Australia New Zealand The Bahamas

Cayman Islands U.S. Virgin Islands

British Virgin Islands Belize

Guyana India

St. Nevis St. Kitts

Bermuda Barbados

Spoken in: Spain Cuba

Dominican Republic Puerto Rico

Mexico Guatemala Nicaragua El Salvador Honduras Costa Rica Panama

Venezuela Colombia Ecuador

Peru Chile

Argentina Paraguay Uruguay

Ecuatorial New Guinea Bolivia

Spanish (Castellano) 266 million native speakers

Hindi 182 million native speakers

Arabic: 181 million native speakers

Spoken in more than 30 Middle Eastern and African Countries including:

Egypt Turkey Morocco Saudi Arabia Iraq Iran Qatar Kuwait Lebanon Syria Tunisia United Arab Emirates Oman Yemen

Portuguese: 230 million native speakers

Spoken in:

Portugal Brazil Mozambique Angola Guinea-Bissau East Timor Cape Verde Sao Tome & Principe

Bengali:

162 million native speakers

Russian: 158 million native speakers

German: 121 million native speakers

Japanese: 124 million native speakers

French: - 110 million native speakers

- is spoken in 29 countries

Can you identify these written languages?

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