10 The most widely used language in the world.

1. Mandarin

Mandarin is the most widely spoken language of people around the world. Total population in China / China currently is estimated to reach nearly 1.4 billion million inhabitants. Of this amount, it is required to officially spoken in one language is Mandarin. Not to mention, Tionghoa immigrants in various parts of the world's faithful use of Mandarin as the language daily.

2. Inggris

Well, here it is the most popular language in the world as well as the language most widely adopted into the official language in several countries and international organizations. Noted there are 53 countries and 10 international organizations use English as the official language. In addition, almost all countries in the world adopts English as a second language after their respective national language.

3. Hindia

India is unique! Just imagine, this country has the second largest population in the world, Bollywood films, the Taj Mahal, Emperor Asoka the Great, Mahatma Gandhi. It turned out that India does not have an official national language. Hindi is spoken by most of the people of India are only recognized as an official language along with everyday English and not as a national language by the constitution.

4. Spanyol

After Portugal's control of maritime routes in Asia, Africa and America in the 15th century, the turn of Spain that dominated these areas since the 16th and 17th century. As a result, many embedded strong Spanish culture there. Currently, Spanish is widely used as an official language of the countries in Central and South America. In addition, Spanish is spoken too much in some U.S. states bordering Mexico. Even some English vocabulary borrowed from Spanish, such as a tornado, bonanza, patio, quesadilla, enchilada, and taco grande supreme, etc.

5. Arab

Arabic is one of the oldest languages in the world and is the language used in the Qur'an. Arabic vocabulary lend much to a number of languages in Europe primarily Spanish, Portuguese and Sicily. Arabic, like Hebrew and Persian writing system uses characters from right to left. Since 1974, the Arabic language is used as one of the official languages at the United Nations.

6. Rusia

Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, Roman Abramovich, Anna Kournikova, and the beautiful Maria Sharapova is a Russian language speakers we already know through various news media. However, in addition to their course, there's 270 million people who use the Russian language as official language.

7. Melayu

Indonesian language included in the Melayu language family it was ranked number seven with a number of speakers around 259 million people. These rough calculations obtained from the estimated total population of Indonesia in 2009 which reached 230 million plus population of Malaysia's 28 million, 388 thousand residents of Brunei as well as a small population of Thailand, Singapore and East Timor. This amount may increase because since the year 2007 Indonesian has been established as the second official language in Vietnam.

8. Portugal

Portugal is just a small country and can say one of the poorest countries in Europe. But in the 15th century, Portugal is a great nation because it is they who first made maritime exploration to various parts of the world. Thanks to the explorers like Vasco da Gama, Henry the Navigator, Afonso de Albuquerque and Pedro Alvares Cabral, the Portuguese controlled territories in Asia, Africa and South America and then embed the influence of culture there.

9. Bengali

Bangladesh is a country with a small geographical area, but the total population reached 162 million people. The official language of Bangladesh is Bengali. Because of Bangladesh is almost entirely bordered by India, the number of Bengali speakers expanded to several regions of India.

10. Perancis

Language is often cited as the most romantic language in the world than is used in France also became the official language in some countries that had conquered. French language is also one of the official languages in United Nations (UN) other than English, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish and Arabic.

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