Top languages spoken in today's world.

TOP LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN TODAY'S VWORLD. 6900 languages are spoken in the world daily, the majority of which have number of speakers. About 3 billion people of almost 7 billion of the human population speak one of the 10.Punjabi: only a small (109 million speakers) Spoken in: India, Pakistan. 2nd language: (10 million speakers) Total: 120 million speakers. 09-Japanese: (126 million speakers) Spoken in: Japan, Palau. 2nd language: (4 million speakers) Total: 130 million speakers. following 10 languages. 08 Russian: (145 million speakers) Spoken in: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Abkhazia, South Osseatia +7 countries. The ranking of the languages are based by number of native speakers. Second language population are also given. 2nd language (120 million speakers) Total 300 million speakers. 01-Mandarin: (873 million speakers) Spoken in: China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia. 2nd language: (520 million speakers) Total: 1.3 billion speakers. 07-Bengali: (203 million speakers) Spoken angladesh, India, Sierra Leone. 2nd language: (50 million speakers) Total: 253 million speakers. Arabic, Mandarin, English, Spanish, French and Russian being:the official Six languages of the United Nations. 06-Portuguese: (220 million speakers) Spoken in: Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bassau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe. 2nd language: (10 million speakers) Total: 230 million speakers. 02-Hindi/Urdu (Hindustanl). (570 million speakers) Spoken in: India, Pakistan. 2nd language: (490 million speakers) Total: 970 million speakers. 05-Arabic: (232 million speakers) Spoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, +18 countries. 2nd language: (24 million speakers) Total: 260 million speakers. 04. English: 03-spanish (Castilan). (330 million speakers) Spoken in: Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, (328 million speakers) Spoken in: United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Guyana, Belize, Trinidad & Tobago Top 6 languages used on the internet: Top 6 systems of writing: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Cuba, Puerto Rico 01-Latin, with 172 languages. 01-English, with 28.9% (326 million). +44 countries. +8 countries. 02-Cyrilic, with 37 languages. 2nd language: (1400 million speakers) Total: 1.8 billion speakers. 2nd language: (113 million speakers) Total: 500 million speakers. 02-Chinese, with 14.7% (166 million)." 03-Spanish, with 8.9% (100 million) 03-Arabic, with 22 languages. 04-Devanagari, with 20 languages. 04-Japanese, with 7.6% (86 million). English has become the leading language of international discourse, and has acquired use as lingua franca in many regions. Many countries in the world that do not have english as a first language has encouraged its population to learn how to speak it, as we have for example: Chile, Egypt, and Mongolia. 05-Bengali, with 7 languages 05-German, with 5.2% (58 million). 06-Chinese, 06-French, with 5% (56 million). with 2 languages. References: Language ranking determined by combining lists from the following sites: Top Languages of the world - http://www.vistawide.com/languages/top_30_languages.htm Top Languages - http://www.andaman.org/B0OK/reprints/weber/rep-weber.htm List of languages by number of native speakers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers