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The 30 Most Spoken Languages of the World!

1 Mandarin Sino-Tibetan Chinese Characters 1051 China, Malaysia, Taiwan
2 English Indo-European Latin 510 USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
3 Hindi Indo-European Devanagari 490 North and Central India
4 Spanish Indo-European Latin 425 The Americas, Spain
5 Arabic Afro-Asiatic Arabic 255 Middle East, Arabia, North Africa
6 Russian Indo-European Cyrillic 254 Russia, Central Asia
7 Portuguese Indo-European Latin 218 Brazil, Portugal, Southern Africa
8 Bengali Indo-European Bengali 215 Bangladesh, Eastern India
9 Malay, Indonesian Malayo-Polynesian Latin 175 Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
10 French Indo-European Latin 130 France, Canada, West Africa, Central Africa
11 Japanese Altaic Chinese Characters 127 Japan
12 German Indo-European Latin 123 Germany, Austria, Central Europe
13 Farsi (Persian) Indo-European Nastaliq 110 Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia
14 Urdu Indo-European Nastaliq 104 Pakistan, India
15 Punjabi Indo-European Gurumukhi 103 Pakistan, India
16 Vietnamese Austroasiatic Based on Latin 86 Vietnam, China
17 Tamil Dravidian Tamil 78 Southern India, Sri Lanka, Malyasia
18 Wu Sino-Tibetan Chinese Characters 77 China
19 Javanese Malayo-Polynesian Javanese 76 Indonesia
20 Turkish Altaic Latin 75 Turkey, Central Asia
21 Telugu Dravidian Telugu 74 Southern India
22 Korean Altaic Hangul 72 Korean Peninsula
23 Marathi Indo-European Devanagari 71 Western India
24 Italian Indo-European Latin 61 Italy, Central Europe
25 Thai Sino-Tibetan Thai 60 Thailand, Laos
26 Cantonese Sino-Tibetan Chinese Characters 55 Southern China
27 Gujarati Indo-European Gujarati 47 Western India, Kenya
28 Polish Indo-European Latin 46 Poland, Central Europe
29 Kannada Dravidian Kannada 44 Southern India
30 Burmese Sino-Tibetan Burmese 42 Myanmar


A language is a system used to facilitate communication among higher animals and/or computers. This article concerns the fundamental features typically found in nearly all natural human languages. For information about artificial languages specifically for computers, see computer language. Higher animals believed to employ audible language only, without symbols, include, but are not limited to, dolphins and whales. For information about this subject, see animal communication. The Latin word "lingua" is equivalent to the English word "tongue"; the word "language" is intimately related to the word "tongue". Strategic interactions of the tongue with other components of the vocal tract, particularly the teeth and the palate, lead to the living synthesis of human speech. The term "language" can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon. "Language" is also used to refer to the common properties of the various languages.

Translation is the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language (the "source text") and the production, in another language, of an equivalent text (the "target text," or "translation") that communicates the same message.

Translation must take into account a number of constraints, including context, the rules of grammar of the two languages, their writing conventions, their idioms and the like.

Traditionally translation has been a human activity, though attempts have been made to computerize or otherwise automate the translation of natural-language texts (machine translation) or to use computers as an aid to translation (computer-assisted translation).

Perhaps the most common misconception about translation is that there exists a simple "word-for-word" relation between any two languages, and that translation is therefore a straightforward and mechanical process. On the contrary, historical differences between languages often dictate differences of expression. Hence, source and target texts may differ significantly in length[1]. In addition, translation is always fraught with uncertainties as well as the potential for inadvertent "spilling over" of idioms and usages from one language into the other, producing linguistic hybrids, for example, "Franglais" (French-English), "Spanglish" (Spanish-English), "Poglish" (Polish-English) and "Portunhol" (Portuguese-Spanish).