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A world language (sometimes global language, rarely international language ) is a language that is geographically widespread and makes it possible for members of different language communities to communicate. The term may also be used to refer to constructed international auxiliary languages such as … See more
Various definitions of the term world language have been proposed; there is no general consensus about which one to use. See more
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Arabic has been described by Salikoko Mufwene as a world language—albeit a second-tier one after … See more• Leonhardt, Jürgen (2013). Latin: Story of a World Language. Harvard University Press. doi: See more
ancient timesLatin was a world language due to its use as a lingua franca in the Roman Empire and the Catholic Churchthe 20th and 21st centuriesEnglish became the foremost, and by some accounts the only, world language due to its global function, geographical distribution, and economic and scientific influencethe 21st centuryOther possible world languages are Arabic, French, Russian, and Spanish, based on their status as supercentral languages, lingua francas, or vernaculars in different regions and domainsWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia
WEB41 rows · Most spoken languages, CIA, 2022; Language Percentage of world …
See all 41 rows on en.wikipedia.orgLANGUAGE FAMILY BRANCH FIRST-LANGUAGE (… English (excl. creole languages ) Indo-European Germanic 380 million Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chine… Sino-Tibetan Sinitic 939 million Hindi (excl. Urdu ) Indo-European Indo-Aryan 345 million Spanish (excl. creole languages ) Indo-European Romance 485 million
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WEB30 rows · The Ethnologue 200 accounts for most of the world's population. Over 88% of people speak one of these languages as their native tongue, and many hundreds of millions more speak them as second languages. …
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