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Monday, September 20, 2021

CONTEXT: Major Languages of the World

Although more than 7,300 languages are spoken by people in the world today, just 23 languages are the mother tongue of 4.1 billion people, around half the global population. Chinese is the largest language group, with more than a billion native speakers, but English is spoken in the most countries and is, by far, the most widely studied language by non-native learners.

Posted at September 20, 2021 12:50