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Old 24th March 2006, 22:50
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for the 10 most spoken languages in the world


1 Mandarin Sino-Tibetan Chinese Characters 1051 China, Malaysia, Taiwan
2 English Indo-European Latin 510 USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
3 Hindi Indo-European Devanagari 490 North and Central India
4 Spanish Indo-European Latin 425 The Americas, Spain
5 Arabic Afro-Asiatic Arabic 255 Middle East, Arabia, North Africa
6 Russian Indo-European Cyrillic 254 Russia, Central Asia
7 Portuguese Indo-European Latin 218 Brazil, Portugal, Southern Africa
8 Bengali Indo-European Bengali 215 Bangladesh, Eastern India
9 Malay, Indonesian Malayo-Polynesian Latin 175 Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
10 French

i was curious so i looked them up....the numbers like 1051 in Mandarin reprsents speakers by millions
http://www.krysstal.com/spoken.html



As for the Languages in Switzerland



German 74%
French 21%
Italian 4%
Rumantsch 1%


As for the closest Language to Amazigh, i do not have any idea about it!

As for the easiest langauge to learn according to me is English


PS: i do not claim knowing the answers of 2 first questions. but you said its ok to look for them so i googled them.
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