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ST Quiz: Name the 10 most spoken languages in the world -- nm

Posted by ty97 Jul 14 '10, 13:29

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No. 9 is Indonesian -- nm - facto Jul 14, 13:44 3
- *Malay-Indonesian* -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:45 2
  - yup, see below - corrected myself :-) -- nm - facto Jul 14, 13:47 1
    - I just opened ST, so I had to just take a minute to review what was already mentioned -- nm - facto Jul 14, 13:47
#7 and #9 are left. Both Asian languages. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:43 4
- #7 is Bengali.. ? No 9 is Indonesian, or Malay/Indonesian(?) -- nm - facto Jul 14, 13:46 1
  - Yep #7 is Bengali -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:47
- vietnamese -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:44
- korean -- nm - Andie Jul 14, 13:43
nobody else has mentioned cantonese? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 14, 13:40 2
- although a lot of the Chinese in North America are Cantonese speakers, they are far outnumbered by Mandarin speakers - zork Jul 14, 13:47 1
  - I'm still surprised they didn't end up being 8th or 9th on the list though -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 14, 14:17
arabic, hindi, spanish, portugese, russian, -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 14, 13:36
French, Portugese, Japanese, Urdu, Thai, Mandarin, Cantonese -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 13:35 2
- Urdu was the one that was slipping my mind. -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:37 1
  - I work with a lot of people that speak Urdu, otherwise I never would have guessed it. -- nm - Krusty Jul 14, 13:38
Swahili. It's the most spoken Bantu language. -- nm - Mop (219 lbs) Jul 14, 13:35
Farsi -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:35 1
- ooh, or "persian". heh. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 13:36
mandarin. cantonese. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 13:33 1
- and japanese. (ok, probably not) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 13:33
french. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 14, 13:33 1
- #10 -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:33
English, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Hindu, Russian, Italian. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:30 12
- #2, Be more specific, #4, #6, Hindustani is #3, #5, and nope. -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:32 5
  - mandarin or Hunan -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 14, 13:34
  - Mandarin Chinese -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:34
  - Mandarin, French, Portuguese, Italian -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:33 2
    - and Portugese is #8 -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:42
    - Mandarin is #1 -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:38
- German. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:31 5
  - Japanese? (is Japanese different from Chinese in terms of speaking? I would assume so.) -- nm - JaxSean Jul 14, 13:33 2
    - Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese (etc.)), Korean are all different. -- nm - zork Jul 14, 13:36
    - do we speak european? -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 14, 13:35
  - French and Portuguese. -- nm - Loyola Jul 14, 13:33
  - nope -- nm - ty97 Jul 14, 13:32

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