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

["Dr.M.C. Gupta" <>]

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Here is the data I have--



*Most Commonly Spoken Languages*

Rank

Language

Number of Speakers

1

Chinese (Mandarin)

1,000,000,000 +

2

English

508,000,000

3

Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu)

497,000,000

4

Spanish

392,000,000

5

Russian

277,000,000

6

Arabic

246,000,000

7

Bengali

211,000,000

8

Portuguese

191,000,000

9

Malay-Indonesian

159,000,000

10

French

129,000,000

Source: *University of Washington*

From--www.aneki.com/*languages*.html


M C Gupta

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On 3/24/08, Nivraaj Consultants  wrote:
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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
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> --- "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.
> >
> > MCG
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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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > ~Maloy
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