The languages of the world
There are roughly 6500 languages are spoken today. Among them many have inadequate information, and greater number has been disappearing. It is only within the present century or so, that language has been studied in a scientific way or just took seriously in studying the relationship between language and its culture. So the knowledge it has gained has not yet become part of our traditional education.
Anyway, languages are not at all uniformly distributed around the world. For instance out of 6500 languages, only around 220 are spoken in Europe, 311 in U.S, while 2150 are spoken in Asia, 2100 in Africa- (this is not accurate figures). Among them 130 to 136 are considered as major languages. The top 9 languages that are spoken by more than 100 million to 1000 million people are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi /Urdu, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Japanese.
Anyway, languages are not at all uniformly distributed around the world. For instance out of 6500 languages, only around 220 are spoken in Europe, 311 in U.S, while 2150 are spoken in Asia, 2100 in Africa- (this is not accurate figures). Among them 130 to 136 are considered as major languages. The top 9 languages that are spoken by more than 100 million to 1000 million people are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi /Urdu, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Japanese.
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