10 The most widely used language in the World

10 The most widely used language in the World

Boomz77- LANGUAGE is arguably one of the most beautiful gift given by God to man. Imagine if the world does not exist there is only one language or any language, is perhaps the scientists could create important discoveries? Then, how many actual number of languages ​​in the world? According to Ethnologue, there are currently about 6912 languages ​​spoken around the world. This amount is of course still doubt its accuracy since every day there is new language that may appear, on the contrary there is also an extinct language.
Indonesia we as so-so little pride in the fact that the Indonesian language in the top 10 that has a number of speakers in the world. Hmmm .... so there are how many Indonesian speaker? The answer, please follow the top 10 list of the most widely used languages ​​in the world that starts from the sequence:
10. French
Language is often cited as the most romantic language in the world than is used in France is also the official language in several countries that have dijajahnya. French is also one of the official languages ​​of the United Nations (UN) other than English, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish and Arabic.

    * Number of speakers: 200 million
    * Script Type: Latin
    * Native Country: France, Monaco, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central Africa, Chad, Comoro, Congo / Zaire, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guernsey, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Togo, Haiti, Lebanon, New Caledonia, Vanuatu. Polynesia, Martinique, Guadalupe. UN official languages.
    * To say hello in French, say: "Bonjour" (bone-JOOR).

9. Bengali language
Bangladesh is a country with a small geographical area, but the population reaches 162 million people. Official language of Bangladesh is Bengali language. Bangladesh is almost entirely due to the region bordering India, the number of Bengali speakers spread to some areas of India.

    * Number of speakers: Approximately 230 million
    * Script Type: Bengali
    * Native Country: Bangladesh, India
    * To greet the Bengali language, saying "Ei Je" (EYE-jay).
8. Portuguese
Portugal is just a small country and can be one of the poorest countries in Europe. But in the 15th century, Portugal is a great nation because they were the first to maritime exploration across the world. Thanks to explorers such as Vasco da Gama, Henry the Navigator, Afonso de Albuquerque and Pedro Alvares Cabral, Portugal control of important areas in Asia, Africa and South America and then embed the influence of culture there.

    * Number of speakers: approximately 240 million
    * Script Type: Latin
    * Native Country: Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe.
    * To say hello in Portuguese, said: "bomb him" (Bohn DEE-ah).
7. Malay (including Indonesian)
Well, here's the long-awaited ... Indonesian language that is included in the Malay language family turned out to be on the order of 7 with the number of speakers around 259 million people. These rough calculations obtained from the estimated population of Indonesia in 2009 which reached 230 million plus population of Malaysia's 28 million, 388 thousand residents of Brunei and a small population of Thailand, Singapore and East Timor. This amount may increase due since 2007 Indonesian has set as a second official language in Vietnam.
Interesting facts about Indonesian:

    * Indonesian was ranked third in Asia and ranks 26th in world in terms of grammar terumit in the world.
    * Indonesian is also global in cyberspace, the proof-language wikipedia Indonesia has been ranked 26 of 250 foreign-language wikipedia in the world and ranks third in Asia after Japanese and Mandarin, in addition to Indonesian is the language of the three most widely used in blog post in wordpress.
6. Russian
Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, Roman Abramovich, Anna Kournikova, and the beautiful Maria Sharapova is a Russian language speakers that we already know through various news media. However, in addition to their course, there's 270 million people who use Russian as an official language.

    * Number of speakers: approximately 278 million people
    * Type characters: Cyrillic
    * State of speakers: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova. UN official languages
    * To say hello in Russian, said: "Zdravstvuite" (ZDRAST-vet-yah).

5. Arabic
Arabic is one of the oldest languages ​​in the world and is the language used in the Qur'an. Arabic vocabulary lend much to a number of major European languages ​​Spanish, Portuguese and Sicily. Arabic, like Hebrew, and Persian writing system using letters from right to left. Since 1974, the Arabic language is used as one of the official languages ​​of the United Nations.

    * Number of speakers: 300 million people
    * Type of script: Arabic
    * State of speakers: Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoro, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali. UN official languages
    * To say hello in Arabic, saying; Assalammualaikum Wr Wb.
4. Spanish
After Portugal controlled maritime routes in Asia, Africa and America in the 15th century, Spain's turn to dominate these areas since the 16th century and 17. As a result, many Spanish culture is strongly embedded in there. Currently, Spanish is widely used as an official language of the countries in Central and South America. In addition, Spanish is also widely spoken in some U.S. states bordering Mexico. Even some English vocabulary borrowed from Spanish as a tornado, bonanza, patio, quesadilla, enchilada, and taco grande supreme, etc..

    * Number of speakers: 400 million
    * Type characters: Latin
    * State of speakers: Spain, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela
    * To say hello in Spanish, saying: "Hola".
3. Hindi
India is unique! Just imagine, this country has the second largest population in the world, Bollywood films, Taj Mahal, the Great King Ashoka, Mahatma Gandhi .... ehh, apparently India does not have an official national language. Hindi language is spoken by most of the people of India is only recognized as an official language along with the daily English language and not as a national language by konsitusinya.

    * Number of speakers: approximately 497 million
    * Type characters: Devanagari
    * State of speakers: India, United States (100,000 inhabitants), Mauritius (685 170 inhabitants), South Africa (890 292), Yemen (232 760 inhabitants), Uganda (147 000 inhabitants), Singapore (5,000 inhabitants), New Zealand (20,000 inhabitants), Germany (30,000 inhabitants), Fiji, Nepal, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana and the United Arab Emirates.
    * To greet in Hindi, say "Namaste" (Well-MAH-stay).
2. English
Well, here's the most popular languages ​​in the world as well as the language most widely adopted as the official language in several countries and international organizations. Noted there are 53 countries and 10 international organizations use English as the official language. In addition, almost all countries in the world would adopt English as a second language after their own national language.

    * Number of speakers: approximately 500 million people
    * Type characters: Latin
    * State of speakers: United Kingdom, USA, South Africa, Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Dominica, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Fiji, Philippines, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Cameroon, Canada, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Maritius, Micronesian, Namibia, Nauru, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Saint Kitts & Nevs, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenada, Samoa, New Zealand, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe . International organizations: United Nations, European Union, Commonwealth, CoE, NATO, NAFTA, OAS, OIC, PIF, UKUSA, etc..
    * To say hello in English, say: F ​​*** U.
A. Mandarin
No doubt, Mandarin is the language most widely spoken around the world. The population in China / China is currently estimated to reach nearly 1.4 billion million. Of this amount, all required official spoken in one language is Mandarin. Not to mention, the Chinese immigrants around the world who faithfully use Mandarin as the language daily.
The origins of the word Mandarin Mandarin words in the Indonesian language itself seemed to be absorbed from the English language to describe China as well as Mandarin. But in fact, said Mandarin is absorbed English from China itself. Mandarin title literally comes from a stranger to the princes of the Qing Dynasty in ancient times.
Qing Dynasty is a dynasty founded by the Manchu, so that the princes of the empire is usually referred to as Mandaren (Hanzi: 满 大人) which means Venerable Manchu. From here, the language used by the Manchu officials were also called the language Mandaren. Writing evolved into Mandarin in the future. (http://www.boomz77.blogspot.com)