What are the recognized classical languages of the world?
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Tamil is not as recognized as Greek or Latin because not many important contributions that are widely recognized today have been made by Tamil-speaking people. Nevertheless, Tamil IS a classic language.
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Hebrew, French, Italian, and Chinese.  Cuz those are the only languages that are major that I dont know.
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there is none.  english is the official language in some states, though, and other states have a non-english language as the official one. for example, hawaiian is the official language of hawaii.
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paix french\npeace italian\npaz spanish\nvrede dutch\nειρήνη greek (try to read it:P)
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Probably no one has an exact count but you could expect to find Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English
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Tamil is a classical language and one of the major languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. Spoken predominanty by Tamilians in South India and Sri Lanka, it has smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. As of 1996, it was the 18th most spoken language in the world with over 74 million speakers worldwide.\n\nAs one of the few living classical languages, Tamil has an unbroken literary tradition of over two millennia. The written language has changed little during this period, with the result that classical literature is as much a part of everyday Tamil as modern literature. Tamil schoolchildren, for example, are still taught the alphabet using the átticúdi, an alphabet rhyme written around the first century A.D..
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Greek is a language...
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i dont think it is possible to count the amount of languages in the world because there are so many and also so many dialects.  mine is english
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alots ....\n\nok let me tell u ... english , french , arabic , spanish , japanese ... etc :) \n\ni dont think u have much time to know all of them lol\n\ntake care
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The numbers vary in scientific counts from 3000 to 8000. Most linguists use 6000 as a good number for how many languages there are in the world.\n\nTo give you an idea of the language diversity in the world, if we took six people and each of them represented 1000 languages, one of them would live in the Americas, one of them would live in Eurasia, two of them would live in Africa, one of them would live in Australia and all the islands of the Pacific and Asia, and one of them would live on the island of New Guinea.
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Mandarin Chinese by far.  It is the official language in China, Taiwan, Singapore.  And it is spoken many oversea Chinese around the world.
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portuguese,spanish,and english
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Chinese might be the Oldest . But languages in Ancient Scriptures found for Ancient Egyptian and Indus Valley Civilizations might also be older than Chinese. And so could be predecessors of Greek and Latin . So it is an Open ENDED Question  !!!
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There are many languages in the world, most of them are almost unknown.\nThese are the 10 most spoken languages:\n1.Mandarin Chinese\n2.English\n3.Spanish\n4.Hindi\n5.Arabic\n6.Bengalese\n7.Portuguese\n8.Russian\n9.Japanese\n10.German
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Basque - Pyrenee mountains\n\nAboriginal languages - Australia\n\nTamil - Southern India\n\nArabic - Middle East\n\nMalayalam - Southern India.\n\nI'm not sure of the others. But Basque i think is one of the five oldest languages.
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Most Widely Spoken Languages\nin the World\nLanguageApprox. number\nof speakers\n 1. Chinese (Mandarin)1,075,000,000\n 2. English514,000,000\n 3. Hindustani496,000,000\n 4. Spanish425,000,000\n 5. Russian275,000,000\n 6. Arabic256,000,000\n 7. Bengali215,000,000\n 8. Portuguese194,000,000\n 9. Malay-Indonesian176,000,000\n10. French129,000,000
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the "lingua pura"... english!\n\nbecause it is the universal language for just about anything... communications, science, technology, mathematics, banking and finance among others...