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Subject: Worlds Most spoken Languages (2019) Fri Jan 03, 2020 12:27 am
The video ranks the 60 most spoken languages by the number of native/first-language speakers as well as their language family.
Note:
- It’s difficult to define exactly what constitutes a language and what a dialect.
- Some languages (e. g. Chinese and Arabic) are sometimes considered single languages and sometimes language families.
- Just first language speakers are counted
- Many countries (mainly French or English speaking ones) are not marked, because they are just speaking the language as second or third, but grow up with another.
- The maps are only showing the roughly Area were the native speakers are mainly from.
Sara Regular Member
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Subject: Re: Worlds Most spoken Languages (2019) Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:38 pm
Interesting!
It IS very hard to decide what constitutes a language vs. a dialect. I grew up with an in-house, off-the-boat Italian grandmother, yet I have a little trouble understanding the Italian spoken by those from the other end of Italy.
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