Julien Rath

Top Eleven World Languages

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1. 1,055 million speakers - Chinese, Mandarin
2. 760 million speakers - English
3. 490 million speakers - Hindi
4. 417 million speakers - Spanish
5. 277 million speakers - Russian
6. 230 million speakers - Bengali
7. 205 million speakers - Arabic
8. 191 million speakers - Portuguese
9. 128 million speakers - French
10. 128 million speakers - German
11. 122 million speakers - Japanese

One Thousand Languages, edited by Peter K. Austin, 2008.

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Diplomacy is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they actually look forward to the trip.

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