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Mandarin Chinese – 882 Million
Mandarin Chinese – 882 Million

Huáyǔ (华语/華語, literally "Hua language/Chinese language") in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines, but not as Guānhuà. Linguists use the term "Mandarin" to refer to the diverse group of dialects spoken in northern and southwestern China, which Chinese linguists call Guānhuà.

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Arabic – 206-422 Million
Arabic – 206-422 Million

Arabic - 206-422 million 5. Hindi - 181 million 6. ... What are the most popular languages that other languages are translated to? prob. chinese, english, ...

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HINDI: 260 Million
HINDI: 260 Million

LONDON: Hindi is the fourth most common language in the world today. Around 260 million people use it as their mother tongue, after Mandarin Chinese (848 million), Spanish (406 million) and English (335 million). Another Indian language — Bengali has been found to be the world’s seventh most common language spoken by around 193 million people.

Portuguese – 178 Million
Portuguese – 178 Million

With approximately 215 to 220 million native speakers and 260 million total speakers, Portuguese is usually listed as the sixth most natively spoken language in the world, the third-most spoken European language in the world in terms of native speakers, and the most spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Bengali – 173 Million
Bengali – 173 Million

Bengali - 173 million 8. Russian - 146 million 9. ... What are the most popular languages that other languages are translated to? prob. chinese, english, ...

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Russian – 146 Million
Russian – 146 Million

Russian - 146 million 9. Japanese - 128 million 10. ... What are the most popular languages that other languages are translated to? prob. chinese, english, ...

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Chinese
Chinese

Standard Chinese, often called Mandarin, is the official standard language of China and Taiwan, and one of the four official languages of Singapore (where it is called "Huayu" 华语 or simply Chinese).

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Spanish
Spanish

Castilian is the official Spanish language of the State. ... The other Spanish languages shall also be official in their respective Autonomous Communities... The Spanish Royal Academy, on the other hand, currently uses the term español in its publications, but from 1713 to 1923 called the language castellano.

English
English

The influence of English comes from such factors as opinion leaders in other countries knowing the English language, the role of English as a world lingua franca, and the large number of books and films that are translated from English into other languages.

Hindi
Hindi

Part XVII of the Indian Constitution deals with the official language of the Indian Commonwealth. Under Article 343, the official languages of the Union has been prescribed, which includes Hindi in Devanagari script and English: (1) The official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script.

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Arabic
Arabic

Arabic influence, mainly in vocabulary, is seen in European languages, mainly Spanish and to a lesser extent Portuguese, Valencian and Catalan, owing to both the proximity of Christian European and Muslim Arab civilizations and 800 years of Arabic culture and language in the Iberian Peninsula, referred to in Arabic as al-Andalus.

Portuguese
Portuguese

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Romance language and the sole official language of Brazil, Cape Verde, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe.

Bengali
Bengali

The Bengali Language Movement was a popular ethno-linguistic movement in the former East Bengal (today Bangladesh), which was a result of the strong linguistic consciousness of the Bengalis to gain and protect spoken and written Bengali's recognition as a state language of the then Dominion of Pakistan.

Russian
Russian

Of all the languages of Russia, Russian is the only official language at the national level. There are 35 different languages which are considered official languages in various regions of Russia, along with Russian. There are over 100 minority languages spoken in Russia today.

CHINESE: 1197 Million Native Speakers (MANDARIN: 848 Million)
CHINESE: 1197 Million Native Speakers (MANDARIN: 848 Million)

CHINESE: 1197 million native speakers (MANDARIN: 848 million) Linguistically speaking, Chinese is a “macrolanguage” that encompasses dozens of different forms and dialects that together have just short of 1.2 billion native speakers.

SPANISH: 399 Million
SPANISH: 399 Million

The most-spoken languages and ... The World’s Top 20 Languages—And The Words English Has Borrowed ... One quarter of the world’s 399 million Spanish ...

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ENGLISH: 335 Million
ENGLISH: 335 Million

English loanwords now appear in many languages, especially in the fields of science, technology, politics, and culture, and international terminology is dominated by English words. More Nobel prizes in literature were awarded to writers using English than those using any other language.

ARABIC: 242 Million
ARABIC: 242 Million

The most-spoken languages and their influences on English. ... The World’s Top 20 Languages—And The Words English Has Borrowed From Them. ... ARABIC: 242 million .

PORTUGUESE: 203 Million
PORTUGUESE: 203 Million

The most-spoken languages and their influences on English. ... The World’s Top 20 Languages—And The Words English Has Borrowed From Them. ... PORTUGUESE: 203 million.

BENGALI: 189 Million
BENGALI: 189 Million

Bengali is national and official language of Bangladesh, and one of the 23 official languages in India. It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and in Barak Valley of Assam. It is also a major language in the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

RUSSIAN: 166 Million
RUSSIAN: 166 Million

The most-spoken languages and their influences on English. ... The World’s Top 20 Languages—And The Words English Has Borrowed From Them. ... RUSSIAN: 166 million.

1 French
1 French

In the United States, Spanish is the most commonly taught foreign language, though French is next. The future of the French language is often discussed in the news—for example, in a recent media debate in New York City.

2 Italian
2 Italian

Nevertheless, an Italian language media market does exist in the country. On the other hand, although technology allows for the Italian language to spread globally, there has been a decrease in the number of Italian speakers in the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Italian speakers in 1980 was 1,614,344.

3 Spanish
3 Spanish

Other Indo-European languages include English, French, German, the Scandinavian languages, the Slavic languages and many of the languages of India. Spanish can be classified further as a Romance language, a group that includes French, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan and Romanian. Speakers of some of those, such as Portuguese and Italian, can often communicate with Spanish speakers to a limited extent.

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4 Portuguese
4 Portuguese

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Romance language and the sole official language of Brazil, Cape Verde, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe.

5 Russian
5 Russian

People use the Russian language on 5.9% of all websites, slightly ahead of German and far behind English (54.7%). Russian is used not only on 89.8% of .ru sites, but also on 88.7% of sites with the former Soviet Union domain .su.

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6 Japanese
6 Japanese

The Japanese government provides standardized tests to measure spoken and written comprehension of Japanese for second language learners; the most prominent is the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), which features five levels of exams (changed from four levels in 2010), ranging from elementary (N5) to advanced (N1).

7 English
7 English

English continues to gain new loanwords and calques ("loan translations") from languages all over the world, and words from languages other than the ancestral Anglo-Saxon language make up about 60 percent of the vocabulary of English.

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8 Ukrainian
8 Ukrainian

The Dictionary of Ukrainian Language in 11 volumes contains 135,000 entries. [citation needed] Lexical card catalog of the Ukrainian Institute of Language Studies has 6 million cards. The same Institute is going to publish the new Dictionary of Ukrainian Language in 13 volumes.