http://www.krysstal.com/spoken.html The 30 Most Spoken Languages of the World ---------------------------------
Pos Language Family Script(s) Used Speakers (Millions) Where Spoken (Major) 1MandarinSino-TibetanChinese Characters885China, Malaysia, Taiwan2SpanishIndo-EuropeanLatin332South America, Central America, Spain3EnglishIndo-EuropeanLatin322USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand4ArabicAfro-AsiaticArabic235Middle East, Arabia, North Africa5BengaliIndo-EuropeanBengali189Bangladesh, Eastern India6HindiIndo-EuropeanDevanagari182North and Central India7PortugueseIndo-EuropeanLatin170Brazil, Portugal, Southern Africa8RussianIndo-EuropeanCyrillic170Russia, Central Asia9JapaneseAltaicChinese Characters and 2 Japanese Alphabets125Japan10GermanIndo-EuropeanLatin98Germany, Austria, Central Europe11WuSino-TibetanChinese Characters77China12Malay, IndonesianMalayo-PolynesianLatin76Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore13KoreanAltaicHangul75Korean Peninsula14FrenchIndo-EuropeanLatin72France, Canada, West Africa, Central Africa15TurkishAltaicLatin69Turkey, Central Asia16VietnameseAustroasiaticBased on Latin68Vietnam, China17TeluguDravidianTelugu67Southern India18CantoneseSino-TibetanChinese Characters66Southern China19MarathiIndo-EuropeanDevanagari65Western India20TamilDravidianTamil63Southern India21ItalianIndo-EuropeanLatin59Italy, Central Europe22UrduIndo-EuropeanNastaliq58Pakistan, India23Min NanSino-TibetanChinese Characters49China, Philippines, Indonesia24JinyuSino-TibetanChinese Characters45China25GujeratiIndo-EuropeanGujerati44Western India, Kenya26PolishIndo-EuropeanLatin44Poland, Central Europe27UkrainianIndo-EuropeanCyrillic41Ukraine, Poland28Farsi (Persian)Indo-EuropeanNastaliq37Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia29XiangSino-TibetanChinese Characters36China30MalayalamDravidianMalayalam34Southern India, Singapore "Try to maintain perfectly pure thoughts in all circumstances, so that even the most insignificant of your acts will preserve their positive energy until you attain enlightenment. A drop of water that falls into the ocean will last as long as the ocean itself." --Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche "Simply understand that birth and death are in themselves Nirvana, there being no birth-death to be hated nor Nirvana to be desired. Then, for the first time, you will be freed from birth and death. Realize that this problem is of supreme importance...." -'Shushogi' by Seiran Ouchi "37. In short: Whatever you do, wherever you are, Look into your state of mind. By keeping continuous mindful awareness It is the practice of a bodhisattva To accomplish benefit for others." -The 37 Bodhisattva Practices, Ngulchu T'hogme Zangpo Buddhist Texts: http://www.thuvienhoasen.org/index-english-4.htm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Japanese_Language/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
