Dominating Languages

Provides information on various dominating languages around the world.

Dominating languages in countries around the world

The most popular languages in the world in where the language is considered official in most number of countries include English, French, Spanish and Arabic. However this contrasts with the actual number of people speaking the language. While both China and India are only two countries, their population makes about 1/3 of the world’s population therefore contributing to their languages being the most actual spoken languages. Some of the world’s most spoken languages are included below including where the languages are derived from.

CHINESE, MANDARIN derived from China

SPANISH derived from Spain

ENGLISH derived from United Kingdom

BENGALI derived from Bangladesh

HINDI derived from India

PORTUGUESE derived from Portugal

RUSSIAN derived from Russia

JAPANESE derived from Japan

GERMAN derived from Germany

CHINESE, WU derived from China

JAVANESE derived from Indonesia

KOREAN derived from Korea

FRENCH derived from France

VIETNAMESE derived from Viet Nam

TELUGU derived from India

CHINESE, YUE (CANTONESE) derived from China

ARABIC derived from Egypt

ITALIAN derived from Italy