* Number of speakers: about 1.5 billion inhabitants.
* Type characters: Chinese characters
* Country speakers:
China and other
Chinese communities around the world. UN official languages.
* Number of speakers: about 500 million people
* Type characters: Latin
* Country speakers:
United Kingdom,
USA,
South Africa,
Antigua &
Barbuda,
Australia,
Bahamas,
Bangladesh,
Barbados,
Belize,
Botswana,
Brunei Darussalam,
Dominica,
Ethiopia,
Eritrea,
Fiji,
Philippines,
Gambia,
Ghana,
Grenada,
Guyana,
Hong Kong,
India,
Ireland,
Jamaica,
Cameroon,
Canada,
Kenya,
Kiribati,
Lesotho,
Liberia,
Malawi,
Maldives,
Malta,
Marshall Islands,
Maritius,
Micronesia,
Namibia,
Nauru,
Nigeria,
Pakistan,
Palau,
Papua New Guinea,
Rwanda,
Saint Kitts &
Nevs,
Saint Lucia,
Saint Vincent &
Grenada,
Samoa,
New Zealand,
Seychelles,
Sierra Leone,
Singapore,
Solomon Islands,
Somalia,
Sri Lanka,
Swaziland,
Tanzania,
Tonga,
Trinidad &
Tobago,
Tuvalu,
Uganda,
Vanuatu,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe .
International Organizations:
UN,
EU,
Commonwealth,
CoE,
NATO,
NAFTA,
OAS,
OIC,
PIF,
UKUSA, etc..
* Number of speakers: approximately 497 million
* Type characters: Devanagari
* Country speakers:
India, U.S. (100,000 inhabitants),
Mauritius (685 170 inhabitants),
South Africa (890 292),
Yemen (232 760 inhabitants),
Uganda (147,000 inhabitants),
Singapore (5,000 inhabitants),
New Zealand (20,000 inhabitants),
Germany (30,000 inhabitants),
Fiji,
Nepal,
Suriname,
Trinidad &
Tobago,
Guyana and
the United Arab Emirates.
After
the Portuguese master maritime routes in Asia,
Africa and
America in the 15th century, Spanish turns that dominate these areas since the 16th and 17th centuries. As a result,
many Spanish culture strongly embedded in there. Currently, Spanish is widely used as an official language of the countries in Central and
South America. In addition, too much
Spanish is spoken in several U.S. states bordering Mexico. Even some
English vocabulary borrowed from Spanish, such as a
tornado,
bonanza,
patio,
quesadilla,
Enchilada, and
taco grande supreme, etc..
* Number of speakers: 400 million
* Type characters: Latin
* Country speakers:
Spain,
Argentina,
Bolivia,
Chile,
Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, El Salvador,
Guinea Equator,
Guatemala,
Honduras,
Colombia,
Costa Rica,
Cuba,
Mexico,
Nicaragua,
Panama,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Puerto Rico,
Uruguay,
Venezuela
* Number of speakers: approximately 300 million people
* Type characters: Arabic
* Country speakers:
Saudi Arabia,
Algeria,
Bahrain,
Chad,
Comoros,
Djibouti,
Egypt,
Eritrea,
Iraq,
Jordan,
Kuwait,
Lebanon,
Libya,
Morocco,
Niger,
Oman,
Palestine,
Qatar,
Somalia,
Sudan,
Syria,
Tunisia,
Union Arab Emirates,
Western Sahara,
Yemen,
Mauritania,
Senegal,
Mali. UN
official languages
* Number of speakers: approximately 278 million people
* Type characters: Cyrillic
* Country speakers: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova. UN
official languages
Portugal is just a small country and can say one of the poorest countries in Europe. But in the 15th century, Portugal is a great nation because they were the first to conduct a maritime exploration to various parts of the world. Thanks to the services of explorers such as
Vasco da Gama, Henry the Navigator,
Afonso de Albuquerque and
Pedro Alvares Cabral, the Portuguese master important areas in Asia, Africa and South America and then embed the influence of culture there.
* Number of speakers: approximately 240 million people
* Type of Script: Latin
* Native Country: Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, São Tomé e PrÃncipe.
Bangladesh is a country with a small geographical area, but its population reached 162 million people. The official language of Bangladesh is Bengali. Because of Bangladesh is almost entirely bordered by India, the number of Bengali speakers extends into some areas of India.
* Number of speakers: Approximately 230 million
* Type of Script: Bengali
* Native Country: Bangladesh, India
Language is often touted as the most romantic language in the world than is used in France also became the
official language in some countries that never source. French also is one of the
official languages of the United Nations (UN) in addition to English, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish and Arabic.
* Number of speakers: 200 million
* Type of Script: Latin
* Native Country: France, Monaco, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central Africa, Chad, Comoros, Congo / Zaire, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Guinea, Guinea Equator, Gabon, Guernsey, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Togo, Haiti, Lebanon, New Caledonia, Vanuatu. Polynesia, Martinique, Guadalupe. UN official
languages.