The island nation of Papua New Guinea holds the record, with 840 spoken languages, many of which aren’t even related! What Are the 21 Languages Most Spoken in the World? The world’s top 21 most spoken languages are (in order): English (1.452 billion) Mandarin Chinese (1.118 billion) ...
There might be a few thousand languages spoken natively in Africa, but most of them fall neatly into just a few categories. Language scholars classify the languages of Africa into six different families, or phyla: the Niger-Congo languages, the Afroasiatic languages, the Nilo-Saharan languages, ...
Any French person will be quick to tell you that their language is one of the most romantic languages in the world but is also spoken in many other countries such as Belgium, Canada, Rwanda, Cameroon, and Haiti. “Hello” in French is “Bonjour”. 9. Malay-Indonesian – 159 Million Spe...
According to Ethnologue, 7,151 languages are spoken in the world today. The distinction between a language and a dialect can be a contentious topic, though. Just ask someone on the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland if Scots is a language or a dialect of English! There’s also a difference be...
This is just a sampling as there are many other languages spoken in Africa. If you do not see a language you need on the list above, please check our long list of languages we translate. We translate and localize all the world’s major languages, and certainly we work with any language...
Here are some useful phrases in Nyanja: English Nyanja Hello Moni My name is… Dzina langa ndi… I’m from… Ndimachokera ku… Learn more about Nyanja on Bing. About the Rundi language The Rundi language is spoken by 12 million speakers in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, DR Congo, Uganda,...
There are about 2,000 languages spoken in Africa. Generally, these languages belong to one of six major linguistic families. They are Afroasiatic family, Nilo-Saharan family, Niger-Congo family, Khoe family, Austronesian family and Indo-European family. Also, there are some additional smaller fam...
The end of English: I am not sure. USA will have two languages: English and Spanish. Even in some States Spanish will be more spoken than English (California, Texas, Florida, etc). That's true. But English is also (at least at this moment) the lingua franca of European Union, India...
Endangered languagesare human languages that are in danger of extinction. This list also encompasses minority languages - languages which are spoken by a stable, but small, population (for example, Maltese or Hawai'ian); and low- or under-resourced languages, which may be spoken by a large po...
How many different languages are spoken globally? In which countries is “por favor” in common use? What are languages where hello and goodbye are the same or similar? How To Say Please, Thank You, Hello, And Goodbye in Every Country Why should we learn how to say please in different ...