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Putonghua Stands Top of 6800 Languages

Putonghua Stands Top of 6800 Languages

Source: Author: Updated: 2008-04-23
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According to the research of the "World Observation Organization" and "Summer Linguistics Research Institute" in America, the most popular language in the world is Chinese Putonghua with 0.89 billion users, the second is Spanish with 0.33 billion, and English is the third, with altogether 0.32 billion speakers. 1155815.cn


As for the origins of languages, among the existing 6800 languages, 32% are from Asia, 30% from Africa and only 4% from Europe. 民俗节庆网


Papua New Guinea has 832 kinds of languages, is the "richest" country in languages. Then comes Indonesia (731 kinds). wish.1155815.com


Languages in the New Guinea turn out to be the most complicated, though the population of which only account for 0.1% of the total number of the world, the language types make up 1/6 of the world languages. www.1155815.cn


"World Observation Organization" pointed out that 90% of the 6800 languages are on the verge of disappearing. www.1155815.com

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