In principle, therefore, Caribbean dialects of English will be included.
The world has more than 6800 languages spoken throughout it, some of which are spoken by a large proportion of world population, while others are spoken by only a minority. There was also a bit too much on ‘dead’ languages for my taste but that’s a question of personal preference of course.Wow! The best part?
Oh also , if I am not wrong, some other countries after Yugoslavia’s division has Turkish as one of their official languages.I think Arabic and Persian are two others fashionable languages that the list did not mention them. Carribean, and African dialects are completely different from western version.come on liz, Arabs would accuse you of being a raacciisstt! Other lists I have seen do contain Arabic though and obviously it would come in quite high on this list.It is not true persian is a language which is spoken in three countries over 150m people speak in this language where is it.Iran.. Afganistan..TajikistanOf course the place in the rankings depends on how much the others grew as well. It would be interesting to compare the differences in Arabic dialects with differences in some others which, although similar, are definitely considered to be separate languages (eg Spanish / Portuguese, Hindi / Urdu)what is the status of Punjabi language?Thanks for quoting the book. )Your post 20 Languages of the World is helpfull to me. – however, the Arabic that is in the mass media, on television, newspapers, textbooks, school lesson plans, is all universally understood.There is 80 million people in turkey how can turkish be 61m?Nicholas Ostler’s book is called ‘Empires of the Word’ not ‘Empires of the World’ as stated here.i aslo think the level of english has probably raised quite a bit, with the internet. WHY ISNT IT THERE ON THE LIST.you have to say that arbic is the hardest language in the worldSee im form bangalore i like to speak tamil,i love tamiliansYa vidya thats correct tamil is 1st then telguhow tamil is behind telgu??
But in general, all Arabs understand each other’s dialects through watching tv in the different dialects or through traveling and etc.
This list counts people speaking the language either as their first or second language, so they are probably pretty fluent.Even though Arabic in it self isn’t a language, rather a language group like Chinese, Standard Arabic is still widely spoken language that almost all Arabs do speak besides their regional tongue.for instance, i dont know a whole lot of spanish, but mixing words around (with horrible grammar, i am sure) i can often get my point across. This list was written around 10 years ago, and it looks as if the main difference is the Turkish population, which has grown around 10m in that time.yeah english is considered to be a universal language, i think it’s an asset to know more than one language.
thank youLucy is English and first ventured out of the UK she was 19. Levantine, Egyptian, etc.) Modern Turkish is indeed a dialect of Turkic language group (according to Wikipedia spoken by some 170 million people).
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Quick Daily Lessons. If they are consolidated as a single hyper-language community, united by the élite’s use of Classical Arabic as a lingua franca, they would amount to something over 205 million, placing them between Bengali and Portuguese.
As you say, the number of English speakers is high though.I am not a native speaker of Arabic but I don’t think the Arabic variants are THAT different from each other. However, English does not rank first in terms of the number of native speakers.