Spoken Languages
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== References == | == References == | ||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language Language: Wikipedia] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language Language: Wikipedia] | ||
| + | * [http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/ The Google Endangered Languages Project] | ||
| + | * [http://www.language-archives.org/ The Open Language Archives] | ||
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Spoken language is believed to date back 50,000 to 100,000 years, and is considered to be one of the major things that distinguish humans from animals. It long predates Written Languages.
The languages with the largest number of native speakers are:
- Mandarin
- Spanish
- English
- Arabic languages
- Hindi
- Bengali
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Japanese
- German
