Does anybody know which language has the most words, how many?
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Hey man listen here!! Mr. Cannibal is answering you!!\nWords in this nature are natural.\nWhen languages use words it means they discovered the words not invented!\n Now I must answer your question that English has the most words because this is very old language and also absorbed many words from other languages during occupying other countries.\nBut you don’t have to memorize all of them.\nAlso Happy Birthday to you.
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in American schools... sure, those are correct.\n\nbut in the world, it's actually quite different. the languages with 100 million+ native speakers are:\n\n1. Chinese (850 million)\n2. Hindi (400 million), mainly spoken in India\n3. Spanish (390 million)\n4. English (354 million)... not a foreign language :)\n5. Arabic (272 million)\n6. Portuguese (210 million)\n7. Bengali (194 million), mainly spoken in India + Bangladesh\n8. Russian (145 million)\n9. Japanese (130 million)\n10. French (120 million)\n11. Punjabi (104 million), mainly spoken in India\n12. German (100 million)
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I learned there are about 6000 human languages.\nNot counted: dead languages.\nThe number of dialects is hard to count, because the differences are too vague.When you guess five in each language then you find 30 thousend.
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What language is it in?
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about 39,491 alternate language names and dialects... i got this from wikipedia. Hey, im not THAT smart! I got curious so i googled it :-)
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ANSWER: Although a language can be defined as differently from one person to the next, SIL International, the pre-eminent source for the catalogue of languages around the world, claim there are 6,912 known languages.\n\nEDIT: Posted wrong link, this is correct\n\nhttp://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp
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There are six official languages of the United Nations, in which all formal debate and communication are to be done in. Those are English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Chinese. Most text is drafted in English and/or French.
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171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. Over half of these words are nouns, about a quarter adjectives, and about a seventh verbs; the rest is made up of interjections, conjunctions, prepositions, suffixes, etc. These figures take no account of entries with senses for different parts of speech (such as noun and adjective).\n\nThis suggests that there are, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct English words, excluding inflections, and words from technical and regional vocabulary not covered by the OED, or words not yet added to the published dictionary, of which perhaps 20 per cent are no longer in current use. If distinct senses were counted, the total would probably approach three quarters of a million.
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tagalog\nilloncano\ncebuano \nenglish \nOhh...yeah you said there were 100!
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No.\n\nSome other languages have more than 27 letters in their alphabets.\nEnglish used to have more itself including þ (named:Thorn), đ (Eth), and æ (Ash).
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Well the UN officially recognises exactly 200 countries. However there are several which claim independance, but are not recognised, ir Chechnya, Kashmir, Western Sahara etc Also there are more countries which exist as parts of Unions or Federations, and so are only counted once, ie England, Scotland, Wales & N.Ireland are all counted as the UK. \nAs for language's. There are over 7000 according to the Ethnologue, although UN statistics suggest the number is closer to 3,500 that are in common use, although with globalisation there is apparently a language extinction every 20 days or so at present! Although is seems a large number the vast majority or people upon the Earth speak one of the top 50 most common. The top 10 are:\n1 Chinese (Mandarin) 1,000,000,000 + \n2 English 508,000,000 \n3 Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) 497,000,000 \n4 Spanish 392,000,000 \n5 Russian 277,000,000 \n6 Arabic 246,000,000 \n7 Bengali 211,000,000 \n8 Portuguese 191,000,000 \n9 Malay-Indonesian 159,000,000 \n10 French 129,000,000
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http://www.wordorigins.org/number.htm\n\n'All told, estimates of the total vocabulary of English start at around three million words and go up from there.'
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Spanish, english, French, some German
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Spanish and English are in a virtual dead heat to be the second most spoken language in the world. As of 1999, Spanish had 332 million speakers, while English had 322 million\n\nIf mostly English is spoken here, then Spanish is number 2.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_speakers
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paix french\npeace italian\npaz spanish\nvrede dutch\nειρήνη greek (try to read it:P)
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Mandarin Chinese is the most prevalent language.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_speakers