Test yourself!

[Larache4eva]

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.

[Amazigh Man]

well well well Larache!

good stuff! good work!

I am waiting for the others' participations.

[Lotfi-dz]

Originally Posted by Amazigh Man

1-What is the most 10 spoken langauges in world? (I mean here mother tongue languages)

2-How many official languages does Switserland have?

3-What is the closest language in the world to Amazigh language? (linguistically)

4-What is the easiest language to learn, in the world? (according to you)

1- English, Chinese (more then 1/4 of the world speak chinese ), French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Hindo, Bengali, Russian, Urdu.

2- official languages of Switserland are German, French, Italian

3- the closest language in the world to Amazigh language could be Spanish,

4- as for the easiest language to learn i think its english


Rumantsch is not an official language of Switserland!!!!

[Amazigh Man]

first of all thanks for Larache4eva, LalaMimi and Lotfi-dz for their participations.

1- the most (as a mother tongue) spoken languages in the world are:

Chinese-Mandarin 13.69% (of the world's population)

Spanish 5.05%

English 4.84%

Hindi 2.82%

Portuguese 2.77%

Bengali 2.68%

Russian 2.27%

Japanese 1.99%

German Standard 1.49%

Chinese- Wu 1.21%

(in some other statistics English is second not third! because a lot of latinos in the US prefer to use English not Spanish between themselves and with their kids)

For Arabic you can't consider Moroccan arabic and Iraqi or Syrian Arabic as one.!

for those arabs of the middle east, Moroccan Arabic is some kind of Chinese.. Arabs can't understand Moroccan Darija. Because Darija is a mix of Arabic and amazigh... and the pronuciation of it is amazigh.

And classical Arabic is only used in books and news and prayers... Arabs do not use it on the streets or at homes..!! so you can't consider it as a mother tongue!

2- Switzerland has 3 official languages: German, French and Italian. Romantsch is recognized but not official.
in Switzerland is the majority for German: 65%.
French: 18%
Italian: 10%

3- The closest language to Amazigh language is, ladies and gentlemen: Egyptian. not Egyptian Arabic, but real Egyptian: the language of the Pharaos.

And Egypt was ruled by an Amazigh family for nearly 200 years after that the Pharao's army was defeated by the Army of Amazigh king Shishanak. and Shishanak became the new Pharao of Egypt!

4- it's an opinion question of course. I think it's English too. I am still waiting for somebody to convince me that there is an easier language to learn than English!
Español is famous of its difficult structure of verbs!
but I think that it's really a beatiful language... and experts believe that Spanish has a bright future in the 21st century!... maybe it could defeat English some day!!!! who knows for sure?!