Good Day Steemians,
While sitting idle in your backyard, having a cup of tea; should you ever imagined, what would have happened if we do not have our native languages as a medium of communication?
Language is a blessing that everyone in the world is blessed with. Even our ancestors, used to communicate with different sign languages.
The study of language is also known as a linguistics. As per an an estimate, the number of languages in the world vary between 5,000 and 7,000.
Every living being in this planet poses some kind of way of communication whether its done by using a series of words or by signs or by expressions. Human language has the properties of productivity and displacement, and relies entirely on social convention and learning. Language is processed in many different locations in the human brain, but especially in Broca's and Wernicke's areas. Humans acquire language through social interaction in early childhood, and children generally speak fluently when they are approximately three years old. Languages evolve and diversify over time and its use is deeply entrenched in human culture.
So, here I will be listing down some of the top rate and most speaking languages of the world:
1- Chinese
Chinese is one of the most difficult but most popular language of the world. If you wish to learn a language that one in six people in the world speak, this is the one for you. A tonal language with pictograms, it will certainly keep you busy.
The number of its native speakers is almost 1.2 billion, roughly a billion of whom speak Mandarin while approximately 200 million people speak this language as a non native one.
2 - Spanish
More than 400 million people own this language as their native language while more than 90 million people speak this language as their non native one. It is certainly the primary language of most of South and Central America, Spain, and, ahem, large swathes of the US. Widely spoken in: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela, and widely spoken in over 20 more countries. It is also one of the official languages of the United Nations. It's an official, national, or widely spoken language in 44 countries, including the United States. Believe it or not, the United States has recently been cited as the second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, after Mexico.
3 - English
English is considered to be one of the most successful languages of the world. We all know are well aware of this language and this might be something common in all of us. By reading this article you are entitled to be one of the 300 million + odd native English Speakers while one of the half a billion people who speak it as a second language. More than 600 million people are its non native speakers. As per the recent details, this language is widely spoken in: the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. It is the most used language used on the internet. The only language which is spreading widely around the world with the passing of time.
4 - Hindi
Hindi is the native and official language of India. It has 23 official languages spoken within its territory. It is spoken mainly in northern India and parts of Pakistan, Hindi uses devnagri script while Urdu uses Persian notation. If you ever travel in the Indian subcontinent, a little Hindi will get you a long way. More than 300 million people own this language as their native language while more than 100 million people speak this language as their non native one. This is widely spoken in India, Nepal, Fiji, and Pakistan. According to linguistic standards, Hindi and Urdu are similar in nature however, due to some key differences between their writing systems and vocabulary, they are considered as separate languages.
5 - Arabic
Arabic is language similar to Urdu/Hindi a bit. More than 200 million people own this language as their native language while more than 100 million people speak this language as their non native one. Arabic is without a doubt one of the world's most spoken languages and has even contributed over 4,000 loan words to the Spanish language. Modern Standard Arabic is a primarily written form, closely related to the Classical Arabic of the Quran. This language is widely spoken in: Oman, Algeria, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Chad, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Palestine and much more.
The above data shows that Chinese is the most popular language of the world, with over one billion speakers while Spanish, English, Hindi and Arabic comes from second to fifth in a row. Language is a medium to express and expose. Language is tool that can be used to fix the lose hopes, desires, issues and parameters of life. We need to your this medium in a proper and productive way to make peace and harmony among ourselves and the world itself.