Can you name the Most Spoken Languages Worldwide?

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Most Spoken Languages Quiz

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Published: August 14th, 2008
Category: Language
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Tags: rank, worldwide, spoken, Most Spoken

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	SixNapoleons:	Sep 2nd, 2008 at 13:58 GMT	31 points
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_language

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	sharkatron300:	Sep 28th, 2008 at 19:42 GMT	4 points
	very good

	AeroE:	Oct 13th, 2008 at 06:20 GMT	-2 points
	The quiz is first languages though. Not many of us speak Klingon as a first language. Nice point about Latin though.

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	Hetch:	Nov 3rd, 2008 at 15:40 GMT	22 points
	Magister: French and Spanish are further apart than English and German, I speak all 4. Romance is a family of languages, not a dialect,spanish actually has a lot of arabic words. Klingon has 56 billion speakers on Kronus alone, plus over a 100 billion across the empire as a second tongue, if they don't want there skulls crushed, but I think the quiz meant on earth

	Brandon:	Nov 5th, 2008 at 19:42 GMT	6 points
	there should be bonus marks for typing the langage in the language. parle vous en francais? quelqu'un?

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	Matt:	Dec 30th, 2008 at 04:13 GMT	4 points
	Wu? isn't that Cantonese? I got 13, shoulda gotten 14 with Cantonese.

	autigers:	Dec 31st, 2008 at 15:12 GMT	47 points
	@Charlotte: They obviously aren't obscure languages if they are on this list

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	canon_ind:	Jan 10th, 2009 at 12:14 GMT	8 points
	Telugu and marathi are spoken very popular in india. Maybe nearly million. 'Panjabi' should be counted! Just another transcription of that name. But I've NOT heard anyone call it 'Javanese' before. I always call 'indonesian' or 'bahasa indonesian'. I think Javanese may be the old version of it. (and only spoken in Jawa area, not for all indonesian islands)

	davebesag:	Jan 18th, 2009 at 13:49 GMT	12 points
	American isn't on the list. They certainly don't speak English ;-)

	vestral:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 15:56 GMT	0 points
	My workplace is full of Indians, and 75% of them speak Malayalam so hmph. Thus I didn't get Marathi or Bengali. Otherwise, great quiz!

	floondi:	Jan 24th, 2009 at 13:56 GMT	12 points
	yue is cantonese and not that widely spoken, wu is a third, different chinese language use wikipedia, it is useful

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	newenglander:	Feb 28th, 2009 at 23:11 GMT	18 points
	Latin isnt dead, its just not officially spoken anywhere other than the Vatican. A lot of people speak it as a second language.

	siukong:	Mar 25th, 2009 at 02:26 GMT	8 points
	I would have thought that cantonese would beat out Wu, and that gujarati and urdu would beat out telugu and marathi.

	ted:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 21:11 GMT	-4 points
	Shouldn't Bahasa Indonesia count for javanese?

	Jcdizon:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 03:26 GMT	6 points
	lol I forgot French and Marathi

	jas1548:	Apr 12th, 2009 at 23:15 GMT	12 points
	@siukong: I though the exact same thing. I googled "cantonese" because I was convinced I was simply misspelling it, but I turned up the Wikipedia page for Chinese that told me Wu is the 2nd most common Chinese dialect, and Cantonese is 4th. You learn something new every day! :P

	newenglander:	Apr 25th, 2009 at 22:10 GMT	5 points
	i think bahasa indonesia and javanese are two different dialects, ted.

	thomas:	May 5th, 2009 at 19:33 GMT	2 points
	@John2, Latin is dead, since there are no native speakers. It is no-one's first language.

	magister:	May 5th, 2009 at 19:39 GMT	10 points
	@John2: Thank you. @Butters: Please remember that Latin, while not spoken nearly as much anymore, as long as there are teachers teaching and learners learning, it will not have died.

	josh:	May 18th, 2009 at 02:37 GMT	5 points
	latin is still spoken commonly in the vatican city so it is not dead my friend

	GeoExpert:	May 26th, 2009 at 03:55 GMT	3 points
	t้รห สฟืเฟีเำ รห หยนาำื รื ิฟืเานาม ะ้ำ แฟยระฟส นด ะ้ฟรสฟืกใ t้รห สฟืเีฟเำำ รห t้ฟร

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	mbossa:	May 29th, 2009 at 08:12 GMT	17 points
	I was a little surprised that French wasn't higher in the list, since they colonised so many countries. I'm guessing it's because they don't meet the "first language" criteria: many countries in Africa have French as an official language, but most people who learn it would have learnt the language native to their area first.

	LEE:	Jun 1st, 2009 at 13:05 GMT	-2 points
	fascinating quiz. I completely forgot about hindi for some reason. oh well

	DerekH:	Jun 13th, 2009 at 15:25 GMT	-4 points
	I still can't spell Portugese :(

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	is89:	Jun 14th, 2009 at 18:08 GMT	-1 points
	Snap DerekH. Maybe it's a Scottish thing.

	thisisaname:	Jun 16th, 2009 at 14:37 GMT	5 points
	Javanese and Indonesian are completely different languages, and so are Wu and Cantonese.