The Most Widely Spoken Languages Globally

Jul 04, 2024 Lavisha Guwalani

Many of today's Indian languages, such as Hindi, Bengali, and Marathi, have evolved from Sanskrit

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Hebrew was widely spoken around 400 CE and has been maintained by Jewish communities worldwide

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Tamil, spoken by 78 million people and established as an official language in Sri Lanka and Singapore, ranks among the world's ancient languages

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Arabic, spoken by around 260 million people globally, is recognized as one of the most ancient languages in the world

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Chinese writing originated around 3000 years ago, with its earliest forms of hieroglyphs dating back to the Shang dynasty (16th to 11th century BC)

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Egyptian has written records dating back to 3400 BC

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Greek boasts an uninterrupted written tradition spanning over 3000 years, surpassing all other contemporary Indo-European languages

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