HINDI BECAME THE THIRD MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD.

HINDI BECAME THE THIRD MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD.

21st FEBURARY IS CELEBRATED AS INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY.

Ethnologue Languages of the World is the U.S based organisation. It annually publishes the statistics and informations about the living languages since 1951. Recently it has published 23rd edition in which it has information about 7117 languages.The data says that 41% of the languages are endangered i.e 2895, less than 1000 speakers speak them and just 23 languages account for more than half of the world’s population.

TOP 10 MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGE

RANKLANGUAGESPEAKER IN MILLIONS
1ENGLISH1132
2MANDARIN1117
3HINDI615
4SPANISH534
5FRENCH280
6ARABIC274
7BANGLA265
8RUSSIAN258
9PORTUGUESE234
10INDONESIAN199

TOP TEN COUNTRIES WITH MOST LANGUAGES

RANKCOUNTRYLANGUAGES
1PAPUA NEW GUINEA840
2INDONESIA710
3NIGERIA524
4INDIA453
5UNITED STATES OF AMERICA335
6AUSTRALIA319
7CHINA305
8MEXICO292
9CAMEROON275
10BRAZIL228

TOP THREE LANGUAGES WITH MOST NATIVE SPEAKERS.

RANKLANGUAGE
1MANDARIN
2SPANISH
3ENGLISH

TOP THREE LANGUAGES WITH MOST SPEAKERS.

RANKLANGUAGE
1ENGLISH
2MANDARIN
3HINDI

Madhvendra Mishra

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