Tuesday, July 7, 2009

World's Top Ten Languages

Here are the top ten languages in the world, including native speakers and estimates of secondary speakers:

Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion)
English (480 million)
Spanish (320 million)
Russian (285 million)
French (265 million)
Hindi/Urdu (250 million)
Arabic (221 million)
Portuguese (188 million)
Bengali (185 million)
Japanese (133 million)

(Source: http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm)

TTE has the resources to translate and/or transcribe all of these and more!

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