World Languages

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Mandarin Chinese

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Mandarin Chinese stands first among the most spoken languages in the world. The speakers range from North-eastern to Beijing, Southwestern to Yin-Lan including several others like China, Taiwan, Malaysia and New York.

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Spanish

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Spanish stands the second among the most native languages. 21 countries speak this language in the western and eastern hemispheres and also runs close with English.

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English

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English is listed at the third place among the most spoken languages in the world.  The reason behind is that it is an international language spoken worldwide.

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Hindi 

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Hindi grabs the fourth spot in the list of top 10 most spoken languages in the world. There are higher estimates of Hindi speakers which acts as the base for all the North Indian languages in India.

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Arabic

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Arabic ranks fifth in the world, which comprises 4 main dialects.  Generally, it is widespread in the Western, Central Egypt, Southern parts of the Gulf, Yemen and Northern parts of Iraq and Lebanon.

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Bengali

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Bengali stands in sixth place and is surprisingly the most spoken language in the world.  Bengali is spoken by about 200 million, primarily in India and Bangladesh.

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Portuguese

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Portuguese is the seventh most spoken language especially in the east and western hemispheres. Countries like Brazil, Angola, Portugal and other countries around the region speak this language.

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Russian

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Russian has over 258 million total speakers worldwide, and is the most spoken Slavic language. Large numbers of Russian speakers are residents of other countries, such as Israel and Mongolia.

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Japanese

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Japanese has dozens of dialects which are completely unintelligible to each other.  They have three types of dialects which include Tokyo, Kyoto-Osaka and Kyushu. Each of these dialects have many sub-dialects.

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Punjabi

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Punjabi is in the tenth position of the most spoken languages in the world.  It also stands in the third place as one of the Indian languages on the list followed by Bengali, and Hindi-Urdu languages.

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