Showing posts with label languages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label languages. Show all posts

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!