世界語言?（１０分）

World Language Ranking (2005 figures)
語言最多人用 (by number of native speakers [population])

Mandarian (Chinese)
Spanish
English
Arabic
Hindi
Portuguese
Bengali
Russian
Japanese
German

語言最有用處 (by popularity worldwide across countries)

English
Spanish
German
Portuguese
French
Italian
Mandarin
Japanese
Russian
Arabic





Language Family Ethnologue (2005 estimate) Encarta estimate Other estimates Ranking by Ethnologue estimate

Mandarin Chinese
Sino-Tibetan, Chinese
873 million
--
873 million native, 178 million second language = 1051 million total
1

Spanish
Indo-European, Italic, Romance
322 million
322 million
Encarta also says 322 to 358 million[3], 400 million native, 100 million second language = 500 million [4][5]
2

English
Indo-European, Germanic, West
309 million
341 million
380 million native, 600 million second language = 980 millon total[6]
3

Arabic
Afro-Asiatic, Semitic
206 million
422 million
Total population of Arab countries: 323 million (CIA 2006 est).
4

Hindi
Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan
181 million (Khariboli dialect)
366 million
948 million total with significant knowledge of the language[7]
5

Portuguese
Indo-European, Italic, Romance
177.5 million
176 million
203 million native (2004 CIA), 20+ million second language = 223 million total
6

Bengali
Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan
171 million
207 million
196 million native (2004 CIA) (includes 14 million Chittagonian and 10.3 million Sylheti).
7

Russian
Indo-European, Slavic, East
145 million
167 million
145 million native (2004 CIA), 110 million second language, = 255 million total (2000 WCD)
8

Japanese
Japanese-Ryukyuan
122 million
125 million
128 million native, 2 million second language, = 130 million total
9

Source : Wikipedia

語言 speakers (millions)
1. 普通話 1051
2. 英文 510
3.Hindi 印度語 490
4.西班牙語 425
5.拉丁文 255
6. 俄文 254
7.葡文 218
8. Bengali 215
9.馬來文,印尼話 175
10.法文 130
11.日文 127
12.德文 123
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26.廣東話 55