what is the world record for most languages spoken by one person?
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http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7414\nread the above and it should answer your questions\n\nhope this answers your question
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From the site -\nThe Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:\n(number of native speakers in parentheses)\n\n   1. Chinese* (937,132,000)\n   2. Spanish (332,000,000)\n   3. English (322,000,000)\n   4. Bengali (189,000,000)\n   5. Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)\n   6. Arabic* (174,950,000)\n   7. Portuguese (170,000,000)\n   8. Russian (170,000,000)\n   9. Japanese (125,000,000)\n  10. German (98,000,000)\n  11. French* (79,572,000)\n\n* The totals given for Chinese, Arabic, and French include more than one SIL variety.  See chart for full details.\n\nThe following list is from Dr. Bernard Comrie’s article for the Encarta Encyclopedia (1998):\n(number of native speakers in parentheses)\n\n   1. Mandarin Chinese (836 million)\n   2. Hindi (333 million)\n   3. Spanish (332 million)\n   4. English (322 million)\n   5. Bengali (189 million)\n   6. Arabic (186 million)\n   7. Russian (170 million)\n   8. Portuguese (170 million)\n   9. Japanese (125 million)\n  10. German (98 million)\n  11. French (72 million)\n\nThe following list is from George Weber’s article “Top Languages: The World’s 10 Most Influential Languages” in Language Today (Vol. 2, Dec 1997):\n(number of native speakers in parentheses)\n\n   1. Mandarin Chinese (1.1 billion)\n   2. English (330 million)\n   3. Spanish (300 million)\n   4. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)\n   5. Arabic (200 million)\n   6. Bengali (185 million)\n   7. Portuguese (160 million)\n   8. Russian (160 million)\n   9. Japanese (125 million)\n  10. German (100 million)\n  11. Punjabi (90 million)\n  12. Javanese (80 million)\n  13. French (75 million)\n\nHowever, in terms of secondary speakers, Weber submits the following list:\n(number of speakers in parentheses)\n\n   1. French (190 million)\n   2. English (150 million)\n   3. Russian (125 million)\n   4. Portuguese (28 million)\n   5. Arabic (21 million)\n   6. Spanish (20 million)\n   7. Chinese (20 million)\n   8. German (9 million)\n   9. Japanese (8 million)\n\nThus, if you add the secondary speaker populations to the primary speaker populations, you get the following (and I believe more accurate) list:\n(number of speakers in parentheses)\n\n   1. Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion)\n   2. English (480 million)\n   3. Spanish (320 million)\n   4. Russian (285 million)\n   5. French (265 million)\n   6. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)\n   7. Arabic (221 million)\n   8. Portuguese (188 million)\n   9. Bengali (185 million)\n  10. Japanese (133 million)\n  11. German (109 million)\n\nThe following is a list of these languages in terms of the number of countries where each is spoken.  The number that follows is the total number of countries that use that language (from Weber, 1997):\n\n   1. English (115)\n   2. French (35)\n   3. Arabic (24)\n   4. Spanish (20)\n   5. Russian (16)\n   6. German (9)\n   7. Mandarin (5)\n   8. Portuguese (5)\n   9. Hindi/Urdu (2)\n  10. Bengali (1)\n  11. Japanese (1)\n\nThe number of countries includes core countries (where the language has full legal or official status), outer core countries (where the language has some legal or official status and is an influential minority language, such as English in India or French in Algeria), and fringe countries (where the language has no legal status, but is an influential minority language in trade, tourism, and the preferred foreign language of the young, such as English in Japan or French in Romania).  For a complete breakdown of each and an accompanying chart, click here.\n\nAfter weighing six factors (number of primary speakers, number of secondary speakers, number and population of countries where used, number of major fields using the language internationally, economic power of countries using the languages, and socio-literary prestige), Weber compiled the following list of the world's ten most influential languages:\n(number of points given in parentheses)\n\n   1. English (37)\n   2. F
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The oldest written records in the world are Sumerian from the southern end of the Euphrates and Tigris River valleys (modern Iraq).  This is the oldest written language based on the dating of the city ruins in which the records were found.  Sumerians were not "an Arab tribe".  Their language is unrelated to any other language in the world.\n\nSumerian (5000 years old), Ancient Egyptian (4500 years old), Hittite (3500 years old), Mycenean Greek (3500 years old), Latin (2800 years old), Sanskrit (2500 years old), Old Chinese (2500 years old), Mayan (2500 years old).
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Best in which context?\nHowever, according to current statistics, the most spoken native languages rated as follows:\n\nRank Language       Primary Country   Population \n1 CHINESE MANDARIN   China         885,000,000 \n2 SPANISH            Spain         332,000,000 \n3 ENGLISH           United Kingdom 322,000,000 \n4 BANGLA            Bangladesh     189,000,000 \n5 HINDI             India          182,000,000 \n6 PORTUGUESE        Portugal       170,000,000 \n7 RUSSIAN           Russia         170,000,000 \n8 JAPANESE          Japan          125,000,000 \n9 GERMAN            Germany        98,000,000 \n10 CHINESE WU       China          77,175,000 \n\nOf them, obviously English is most widely used in all over the world and then spanish. Two other widely used languages are not listed, French and Arabic.\n\nThe most dminant language in the field of literature is also English having 26 Nobel Prize holders, following French 13, German 12 and Spanish 10. Other important Nobel prize holders are in Italian 6, Swedish 6, Russian 5. All listed languages have woned Nobel Prize except Hindi.\n\nIn all continents there are people whose 1st language is English unlike any other language. Now English is more than a language, it is a communication tool.\n\nLatin, Sanskrit and arabic are 3 very important languages called dead language, of them arabic is still mother language of millions over number of countries in 2 continents.
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The country with the greatest number of english speakers is India
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Most Widely Spoken Languages \nin the World/Language Approx. number of speakers \n\n 1. Chinese (Mandarin) 1,075,000,000 \n 2. English 514,000,000 \n 3. Hindustani 496,000,000 \n 4. Spanish 425,000,000 \n 5. Russian 275,000,000 \n 6. Arabic 256,000,000 \n 7. Bengali 215,000,000 \n 8. Portuguese 194,000,000 \n 9. Malay-Indonesian 176,000,000 \n10. French 129,000,000
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Find someone who speaks your own language.
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According to Ethnologue, there are 6,912 known living languages in the world.
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Spanish. \n\nIt has the 3rd most speakers in the world, behind Mandarin Chinese and English, and is spoken in 20(official languages?) countries.\n\nHistorically, the spread of Russian began during the cold war, by imperialism of the Soviet Union throughtout Asia and Europe. It is spoken in 16 countries, most of them formerly part of the USSR.
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Stephen Taylor of the UK is the current world record holder of the longest tongue.\n\nHis tongue, measured from the center of his closed top lip to the tip is 3.7 inches or 9.4 cm. long.
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I don't suppose its an official world record. But, there's old saying that goes "The husband is the last to know" Well my ex wife was having an affair for ages and I didn't catch on. I'm talking several months, close to a year. When I now look back on the situation, it was absolutely obvious. How could I have been so dumb. It was plain as the nose on my face. How,,,,, trust. I trusted her 100%., and she took advantage of that, 100%. So if there is a world record for the dumbest, blindest (not a real word I suspect) most trusting husband,,, then I am WORLD RECORD HOLDER.
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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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In this current World Cup it's Miroslav Klose of Germany.  The record for most goal's in a single World Cup is held by Just Fontaine of France in the 1958 World Cup with 13 goals.  And the record for most goal's in total (in more than 1 World Cup) is Ronaldo of Brazil and Gert Muller of Germany who both scored 14.
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Kenneth Hale, (1934?-2001), MIT linguistics professor (over 50 languages)\nRolf Theil Endresen, Norwegian linguistics professor (over 50 languages)\nThe German Francis Sommer, who died in 1978, was fluent in 94 languages.\n\nThe late Pope could only speak 10
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The first human language was spoken about 100,000 years ago in Africa.  That language broke up into dialects and eventually over time into all the human languages of the world today.
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There would probably be three official languages: English, Spanish, and Chinese.  I believe they are the most-spoken languages on the planet.  I could be wrong, though.
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Yes. It's called Esperanto. There are a number of other invented global languages to choose from, as well. Esperanto has the most speakers within the intentionally created language category, but the language didn't catch on globally. There are still more Esperanto speakers than you'd think, though.