Wednesday 16 March 2011

COMMUNICATION IS A VIRUS - Languages

For the content of my motivational poster designs I needed to find out about languages, which was the most used and how many people spoke it. I found a website online stating the 50 most used languages in the world with some stats and numbers.

http://www.photius.com/rankings/languages2.html


    1. Chinese, MandarinBrunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, S. Africa, Taiwan, Thailand1120
     2. EnglishAustralia, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, India, Ireland, Israel, Lesotho, Liberia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, S. Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Tonga, U.K., U.S., Vanuatu, Zimbabwe, many Caribbean states, Zambia.480
     3. SpanishAlgeria, Andorra, Argentina, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Rep., Ecuador, El Salvador, Eq. Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Niger, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Togo, Tunisia, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela.332
     4. ArabicEgypt, Sudan, ALgeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lybia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, UAE, Oman, Iraq, Lebanon235
     5. BengaliBangladesh, India, Singapore189
     6. HindiIndia, Nepal, Singapore, S. Africa, Uganda182
     7. RussianBelarus, China, Estonia, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, U.S., Uzbekistan180
     8. PortugueseAngola, Brazil, Cape Verde, France, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Macau170
     9. JapaneseJapan, Singapore, Taiwan125
     10. GermanAustria, Belgium, Bolivia, Czech Rep., Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland98
    11. Chinese, WuChina77.2
    12. JavaneseIndonesia, Malaysia, Singapore75.5
    13. KoreanChina, Japan, N. Korea, S. Korea, Singapore, Thailand75
    14. FrenchAlgeria, Andorra, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, France, Gabon, Guinea, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Laos, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Monaco, Morocco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Tunisia, Vanuatu, Vietnam72
    15. TurkishBulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Turkey, Uzbekistan69
    16. VietnameseChina, Vietnam67.7
    17. TeluguIndia, Singapore66.4
    18. Chinese, Yue(Cantonese)Brunei, China, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam66
    19. MarathiIndia64.8
    20. TamilIndia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore, S. Africa, Sri Lanka63.1
    21. ItalianCroatia, Eritrea, France, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland59
    22. UrduAfghanistan, India, Mauritius, Pakistan, S. Africa, Thailand58
    23. Chinese, Min NanBrunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand49
    24. Chinese, JinyuChina45
    25. GujaratiIndia, Kenya, Pakistan, Singapore, S. Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe44
    26. PolishCzech Rep., Germany, Israel, Poland, Romania, Slovakia44
    27. UkrainianPoland, Slovakia, Ukraine41
    28. PersianIran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Oman, Qatar, Tajikistan, U A Emirates37.3
    29. Chinese, XiangChina36
    30. MalayalamIndia, Singapore34
    31. Chinese, HakkaBrunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama, Singapore, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand34
    32. KannadaIndia33.7
    33. OriyaIndia31
    34. Panjabi, WesternIndia, Pakistan30
    35. SundaIndonesia27
    35. Panjabi, EasternIndia, Kenya, Singapore26
    36. RomanianHungary, Israel, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine26
    37. BhojpuriIndia, Mauritius, Nepal25
    38. Azerbaijani, SouthAfghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey24.4
    40. MaithiliIndia, Nepal24.3
    41. HausaBenin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo24.2
    43. BurmeseBangladesh, Myanmar22
    44. Serbo-Croatian4Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia21
    45. Chinese, GanChina20.6
    46. AwadhiIndia, Nepal20.5
    47. ThaiSingapore, Thailand, Malaysia20
    48. DutchBelgium, France, Netherlands, Suriname20
    49. YorubaBenin, Nigeria20
    50. SindhiAfghanistan, India, Pakistan, Singapore19.7
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