Tue 29 Apr 2008
I was discussing which language is the most common with a few people the other day and some said chinese, some said spainish, and I said english. While most lists show Mandarin Chinese as the #1 language those lists are organized by native speakers.
1.05 billion can speak Mandarin Chinese while 1.5 billion can speak English. Chinese only wins because it has more native speakers, english wins by a mile when considering total speakers. English is also the most dominant language when it comes to different countries with chinese being spoken in 16 countries and English being spoken in 104 countries.
Personally though I think we all need to be learning Ter Sami, apparently only 10 people speak it now. If everyone learned it we could really increase their numbers! What a difference we could make! Might be difficult to learn since it has no written version though…
April 30th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Interesting to know! I’ve always thought we were #3 language wise. Public schools taught me that. Public schools also tried to teach me that the earth has been around for billions and billions of years, but they couldn’t fool me! And people wonder why homeschooling is growing more and more popular…