[nukkad] Arabic is the third most spoken langauge after English and French

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Hi Dr. Gupta and others,

Total speakers: Estimates of native speakers between
186 and 422 million [1]. According to Ethnologue, 246
million including second language speakers, (1999 
est).  

This extract is from Wikipedia.

Rajababu

--- "Dr.M.C. Gupta"  wrote:

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> Lingua franca means a common spoken language. Arabic
> is spoken nowhere
> outside the thinly populated Arabia. The vast
> majority of Muslims in the
> world don't know or speak Arabic.
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> On 3/24/08, Maloy Manna  wrote:
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> > >In response to what Maloy said about using
> Arabic, why, what is wrong in
> > having a religion-wide lingua franca? It makes
> things so much more easy to
> > understand, discuss and follow. In fact, often,
> the finer nuances of a
> > word's meaning are lost in translation, as our
> friend T. Vasudevan's son
> > wrote in his veda mail.
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> > It could have been had Arabic been spoken by all
> Muslims across the world.
> > That it isn't makes nuances of Islam more esoteric
> to its own followers in
> > regions like India or Bangladesh where people
> speak in other languages.
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> > ~Maloy
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Regards,
Rajababu, Nivraaj Consultants
rajababu_75@yahoo.com


      
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