Arabic fourth most popular language
(MENAFN- Arab News) Riyadh-based King Abdullah International Center for Arabic Language (KAICAL) has disclosed that Arabic ranked fourth among the major international languages.
Quoting a report KAICAL said that according to a study on languages Chinese is the most widely spoken language. However English occupies the top slot in terms of the number of countries that speak the language followed by Arabic.
The study revealed that although the number of languages in the world stands at 7102 the European continent has only 286 languages.
A total of 2301 languages are spoken in Asia 2138 in Africa 1313 in the Pacific region and 1064 languages in the Americas.
According to the study by Ulrich Ammon professor of languages at the University of Duesseldorf about two-third of the world's population speaks 12 major languages.
According to Ammon who took 15 years to complete his project 1.39 billion people speak Chinese with all its dialects; while 588 million people speak Urdu followed 527 million speakers of English and 467 million Arabic.
Spanish is the fifth major international language spoken by 389 million people followed by Bengali with 250 million speakers.
The rest of the languages are: Russian (254 million) Portuguese (193 million) German (132 million) Japanese (123 million) French (118 million) and Italian (67 million) according to the report published by 'The Washington Post'
English is spoken in 101 countries followed by Arabic in 60 countries French (51 countries) Chinese (33) Spanish (31) Persian (29) German (18) Russian (16) Malay (13) and Portuguese (12 countries).
Quoting a report KAICAL said that according to a study on languages Chinese is the most widely spoken language. However English occupies the top slot in terms of the number of countries that speak the language followed by Arabic.
The study revealed that although the number of languages in the world stands at 7102 the European continent has only 286 languages.
A total of 2301 languages are spoken in Asia 2138 in Africa 1313 in the Pacific region and 1064 languages in the Americas.
According to the study by Ulrich Ammon professor of languages at the University of Duesseldorf about two-third of the world's population speaks 12 major languages.
According to Ammon who took 15 years to complete his project 1.39 billion people speak Chinese with all its dialects; while 588 million people speak Urdu followed 527 million speakers of English and 467 million Arabic.
Spanish is the fifth major international language spoken by 389 million people followed by Bengali with 250 million speakers.
The rest of the languages are: Russian (254 million) Portuguese (193 million) German (132 million) Japanese (123 million) French (118 million) and Italian (67 million) according to the report published by 'The Washington Post'
English is spoken in 101 countries followed by Arabic in 60 countries French (51 countries) Chinese (33) Spanish (31) Persian (29) German (18) Russian (16) Malay (13) and Portuguese (12 countries).
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