This document provides information about the languages spoken around the world. It states that there are estimated to be over 7,000 languages spoken globally, with 90% spoken by less than 100,000 people. The document then profiles the top 15 most widely spoken languages, including Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi/Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Malayan/Indonesian and others. It notes the number of speakers and countries where each language is official.

1. LANGUAGES OF THE
WORLD

3. DO YOU KNOW???
• The oldest written language was believed to be written in about 4500 BC!
• It’s estimated that up to 7,000 different languages are spoken around the
world!
• 90% of these languages are used by less than 1,00,000 people!
• Over a million people communicate in 150-200 languages and
• 46 languages have just a single speaker!
• There are 50,000 characters in the Chinese language!

4. JAPANESE
• Spoken by 125 million people.
• Official language of Japan and
Island of Angaur (Palau).
• Japan has the most populated
metropolitan area.

5. MALAYAN/INDONESIAN
• Spoken by 160 million people.
• Malayan is spoken in Malaysia,
Brunei, Thailand and Singapore
• Indonesian is the official
language of Indonesia.

6. RUSSIAN
• Spoken by 165 million people.
• Official language of Russia,
Belarus, Kirghizstan and
Kazakhistan.
• Co-official language in Ukrain,
Estonia and Latvia

7. PORTUGUESE
• Spoken by 192 million people.
• It is the official language of
Portugal and Brazil.
• You may also find Portuguese in
Macao, Angola, Venezuela or
Mozambique.

8. BENGALI
• Spoken by 211 million people.
• Official language in Bangladesh,
where there are the most of the
native Bengali Speakers.

9. ARABIAN
• Is spoken by 245 million people.
• Official language in 20 countries:-
o Saudi Arabia
o Algeria
o Morocco
o Egypt
o Iraq
o Etc.

10. SPANISH
• Spoken by 391 million people.
• Official language of Spain and
almost all the South American
countries including Mexico.
• There is a considerable number
of Spanish speakers in the
United States.

11. HINDI/URDU
• Spoken by 498 million people
• Hindi is the official language in
India and Urdu in Pakistan.
However, it is consider that both
of them are variations of one
language.

12. ENGLISH
• Spoken by 512 million people.
• The most international language
in the world, Although it only
has 300 million native speakers.
• Official language in the USA,
Canada, United Kingdom,
Australia and other countries.

13. CHINESE
• Spoken by more than 1 billion
people.
• It is the most spoken language in
the world because, it is the
country which has more
population.
• A lot of people are interested in
learning Chinese because it is a
developed market.

14. OTHER LANGUAGES
• German
• Korean
• French
• Turkish
• Vietnamese
• Telugu
• Marathi
• Tamil
• Italian
• Gujarati
• Polish
• Ukrainian
• Persian
• Malayalam
• Kannada
• Oriya
• Bhojpuri
• Etc.

18. INDIAN LANGUAGES

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