mixing few languages to have a global accepted one??

Skippy   Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:05 am GMT
English is pretty international... Most of North America speaks it natively, along with many in Africa and Europe, followed by those all across Europe and Africa who learn it as a second language... Same is the case in China and India...

The problem is rather than languages fusing together, languages are becoming more and more different despite the attempts of those words like 'computer,' 'internet,' and 'email,' that have infiltrated so many...
2992   Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:27 am GMT
indeed, they are sooo many native English speakers in Europe...

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Alba   Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:13 pm GMT
Here you go idiots:

Most Widely Spoken Languages
in the World
Language Approx. number
of speakers
1. Chinese (Mandarin) 1,075,000,000
2. English 514,000,000
3. Hindustani1 496,000,000
4. Spanish 425,000,000
5. Russian 275,000,000
6. Arabic 256,000,000
7. Bengali 215,000,000
8. Portuguese 194,000,000
9. Malay-Indonesian 176,000,000
10. French 129,000,000

(English is not even included above)

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0775272.html




Here's another one:

The Most Common Languages in the World
Language Approximate
number Of
NATIVE Speakers
(in the year 2000) COUNTRIES WITH
SUBSTANTIAL
NUMBERS OF
NATIVE SPEAKERS
1. Mandarin Chinese 874,000,000 16
2. Hindi (India) 366,000,000 17
3. English 341,000,000 104
4. Spanish 322-358,000,000 43
5. Bengali (India and Bangladesh) 207,000,000 9
6. Portuguese 176,000,000 33
7. Russian 167,000,000 30
8. Japanese 125,000,000 26
9. German (standard) 100,000,000 40
10. Korean 78,000,000 31
11. French 77,000,000 53
12. Wu Chinese 77,000,000 1
13. Javanese 75,000,000 4
14. Yue Chinese 71,000,000 20
15. Telegu (India) 69,000,000 7

http://anthro.palomar.edu/language/language_1.htm


and another....

Language Users (millions)
English 287.5
Chinese 102.6
Japanese 92.7
Spanish 85.6
German 52.9
Korean 29.9
French 28.0
Portuguese 25.7
Italian 24.3
Russian 18.5
Malay 13.6
Dutch 13.5
Arabic 10.5
Polish 9.5
Swedish 7.9
Turkish 5.8
Thai 4.9
Czech 4.2
Hebrew 3.8
Danish 3.5
Persian 3.4
Catalan 2.9
Norwegian 2.9
Finnish 2.8
Greek 2.7
Bulgarian 2.4
Romanian 2.4
Vietnamese 2.2
Hungarian 1.7
Slovak 1.2
Croatian 1.0
Ukrainian 0.9
Slovenian 0.8
Icelandic 0.2

Total number of users with European languages (excluding English): 276 million

Total number of users with Asian languages (excluding English): 241 million

by the way people learn English as a second language and because its easy as hell so those who speak it its usually a second third fourth or fifth language that people learn, NOT native speakers its just too easy a language.

So yea like I said again this isnt the special olympics, but some of you in here are clearly retarded. Burn!
xavi   Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:33 pm GMT
NATIVE Speakers
(in the year 2000) COUNTRIES WITH
SUBSTANTIAL
NUMBERS OF
NATIVE SPEAKERS
6. Portuguese 176,000,000 33

What is wrong with your numbers? Brazil alone had more people than that in the year 2000. Those numbers are all wrong.
Guest2   Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:51 pm GMT
Alba,

Number of Speakers does not equate to Global.
No one outside of China speaks Chinese, except for emmigrants, their progeny, and a few who learn it.

English is distributed over a larger area, on several continents. It is also the leading language in commerce and technology. English is unmatched as the global leader.
Chinese   Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:04 pm GMT
Do you know that China has close to two billion people?? and India has a little over a billion. People's misconceptions are that everyone speaks English or learns it, no not everyone does. and just because its used in technology and all that doesnt mean everyone speaks it.



and xavi maybe i missed a zero.
heres the population of Brazil from CIA worldfacts--188,078,227
Franco   Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:48 pm GMT
Of course there may not be that many native english speakers but it still definately is the GLOBAL LANGUAGE OF COMMUNICATION. If an ALbanain wants to talk to a CHinese, what is the most likely language for them to comunicate in? Let's see, it's highly unlikely the Chinese person speaks Albanian unless he's some kind of fogey of an old scholar, and it's unlikely the Albanian speaks Chinese as well, BUT it's reasonalby probably that both of them studied English sometime therefore they're most likely to speak English.
greg   Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:44 pm GMT
Étant donné que l'Albanie et la Chine ont longtemps entretenu des rapports étroits (et quasi-exclusifs côté albanais), il n'est pas impossible de trouver des Albanais sinophones. Ton exemple est particulièrement mal choisi.
Franco   Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:50 pm GMT
<<Do you know that China has close to two billion people?? and India has a little over a billion. People's misconceptions are that everyone speaks English or learns it, no not everyone does. and just because its used in technology and all that doesnt mean everyone speaks it.>>

I think you need to do some more mathematics. 1 300 000 000 people is really "close to two billion"???? Ha ha ha, your rounding is a bit demented I think. You are exagerrating its population by the ENTIRE POPULATION OF EUROPE!!!!!!