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Inbarasi
Senior Member
Joined: 05 Oct 2008 21:30
Posts: 495
Location: Perak
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 Top 30 Languages 1.Mandarin Chinese OFFICIAL: People's Republic of China, Republic of China, Singapore
2.Hindi
OFFICIAL: India, Fiji
3. Spanish
OFFICIAL: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, United States (New Mexico, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela
4. English
OFFICIAL: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong (People's Republic of China), India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Maritius, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevs, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somolia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
5. Arabic
OFFICIAL: Modern Standard Arabic: Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Quatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen. | Hasaniya Arabic: Mauritania, Senegal
NATIONAL: Mali
Note: These figures combine all the varieties of Arabic. Some data sources, e.g. CIA World Fact Book, World Almanac, Ethnologue, treat these varieties as separate languages.
6. Portuguese
OFFICIAL: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Macau (People's Republic of China), Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé e Príncipe.
7. Bengali
OFFICIAL: Bangladesh, India (Tripura, West Bengal)
8.Russian
OFFICIAL: Abkhazia (part of Georgia), Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyyrgyzstan, Russia, Transnistria (part of Moldova).
9. Japanese
OFFICIAL: Japan, Palau
10. German
OFFICIAL: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy (South Tyrol), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Siwtzerland
11. Panjabi
OFFICIAL: India (Punjab)
12.Javanese
OFFICIAL: Indonesia (esp. Java)
13. Korean
OFFICIAL: North Korea, South Korea
14. Vietnamese
OFFICIAL: Vietnam
15. Telugu
OFFICIAL: India (Andhra Pradesh)
16. Marathi
OFFICIAL: India (Daman and Diu, Goa, Maharashtra)
17. Tamil
OFFICIAL: India (Tamil Nadu), Singapore, Sri Lanka
18.French
OFFICIAL or NATIONAL: Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, French Polynesia, Gabon, Guernsey, Guinea, Haiti, India (Karikal, Pondicherry), Italy, Jersey, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Monaco, New Caledonia, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, United States (Louisiana), Vanuatu.
19. Urdu
OFFICIAL: India (Jammu and Kashmir), Pakistan.
20. Italian
OFFICIAL: Croatia (Istria Country), Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland.
21. Turkish
OFFICIAL: Bulgaria (Kurdzhali Province and areas of South and East Bulgaria), Cyprus, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Turkey
22.Persian
OFFICIAL: Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan.
23. Gujarati
OFFICIAL: India (Gujarat, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli).
24. Polish
OFFICIAL: Poland
25. Ukrainian
OFFICIAL: Ukraine, Transnistria (part of Moldova).
26. Malayalam
OFFICIAL: India (Kerala, Lakshadweep, Mahe).
27. Kannada
OFFICIAL: India (Karnataka).
28.Oriya
OFFICIAL: India (Orissa).
29. Burmese
OFFICIAL: Myanmar.
30. Thai
OFFICIAL: Thailand.
Data source: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th ed. (2005) & Wikipedia.org.
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Regards,
*Inbarasi*
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