#like literally the number of native soeakrrs os over 300 million more than the third one | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

divorcetual · 5 months ago

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crazy that indonesian isnt even top 29 help??? its 56(?)

IKR??? esp bcs Indonesia is like the fourth modt populated country in the world ,,, like obv mandarin and english n hindi wld be above it, then spanish n arabic bcs its got so many countries, but its wildddd its so low for native speakers. Even if u include non native speakers its only 11th :0

#lookin at the top 10 tho im.not suuuper surprised #english is 1 which makes sense. over a billion second language speakers #mandarin is 2 and it can get up there by native speakers alone #like literally the number of native soeakrrs os over 300 million more than the third one #hindi is 3 urdu is 10 and bengali is 7 #those are all spoken in India +which give them a huge boost just by native speakers (not to mention the other countries its just India has #A Lot kf people)#and then second languahe speakers are pretty high too #spanish duh #its thd go-to second languahe for any english speaker and I assume a lot kf other european language speakers #plus theres all of south america besides three countries #and EG #french is also duh its an official language in lime 30 countries #Arabic actually Kinda surprises me to be 6 only bcs the classification doesnt include dialects #and theres A Lot of dialects #OH WOW actually thatd entirely by second langauge speakers #it doesnt list ant native speakers sjnfe every1 learns their respective dialects first #b4 learnjng standard #thays less surprising then actually #since a lot of ppl wld learn MS arabic after already knowing theur own dialect #esp for like international business n stuff w/ other arabic speaking countries #and then lots kf ppl learn it as a second language #portugese at 8 ... its got PALOP and brazil so I get that yeah #and russian at 9 #honestly im just surprised its below portuguese and russian. esp russin tbh #also I didnt know urdu has sk few speakers ....#(“few” its 232 million LMAO)

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