Isa ibn Atman
15th January 2012 |
Mentioning Hindi to be the 'national language' is actually incorrect. By constitution and by High court judgements, there is no NATIONAL LANGUAGE in India. India being a federal republic is a union of several states. In the 28 states that are in India, 17 languages are used for governmental administrations (Hindi for 9 states, English for 3, Bengali for 2 and other 14 languages for 14 respective states). I, from Tamil Nadu, could hardly speak a sentence in Hindi, and i have never seen hindi in my state, except in Railway stations and Gas Cylinders. And how coud some language be the NATIONAL language wen a vast majority do not speak it? |
shahid
30th May 2011 |
5th largest language in the world is bangla |
udhayakumar
9th November 2010 |
who are all got problem hindi as a national language of hindi, what is your opnion we announced english as a national language of india |
Freda32LIVINGSTON
14th July 2010 |
This is great that people can receive the loans moreover, that opens up new possibilities. |
♥♥27♥♥
11th July 2009 |
.i think ,, philippines is the country with the most number of dialects spoken .. |
Rohit
20th May 2009 |
Hindi is very different from Urdu. Speaker of one language can hardly understand the other. If you read some Hindi text and Urdu text, you can see the difference. So please dont write Hindi/Urdu. And moreover if you ask any Hindi speaker in India, he would perefer to say he speaks Hindi rather than Urdu. So both are very different languages. Why don't you people then write like English/French and combined population of both. |
Mark Williamson
1st December 2005 |
There are a _lot_ of languages in Chad.
8% of the population speaks Ngambay,
8% speaks Chadian Arabic,
4% speaks Kanembu,
3% speaks Dazaga,
3% speaks Maba,
2% speaks Naba,
2% speaks Sar,
2% speaks Musey,
2% speaks Gulay,
2% speaks Mundang.
The remaining 64% speaks any one of 122 languages, none of which has more than 150000 speakers.
In the capital, N'Djamena, the predominant languages are Chadian Arabic and French.
In the Northern half of the country, the main 3 languages are Tedaga, Dazaga, and Zaghawa, which are spoken over huge areas.
However, due to uneven population distribution, Tedaga and
Zaghawa, although they cover more land than any other two languages in the country, are not in the top 10 languages.
If you're planning to travel to Chad, your best bet is French and Chadian Arabic. Although there are many places where they're not understood, there will usually be at least somebody who can help you who speaks one of those languages, wherever you go. |
Anthony&Anastasia
25th November 2005 |
We're just trying to find WHAT languages are spoken by the majority of people in Chad.
We just found your site, and it's very interesting.
But the information available seems to circle around our actual question.
For what it's worth. |
Ravi
15th September 2005 |
Hi, What are the oldest languages in the world? do you have links pls? |
fatma
8th July 2005 |
how many citys are there in Aisa ? |
Subramanian
8th July 2005 |
The stats given in the comlomns may be given considering the number of regional language also which would be an appropriate projection. Like in India, there are more than 2150 languages spoke without any script. |
UNKNOWN
17th June 2005 |
LATIN LANGUAGES UNITE BACK!!! SPANISH, PORTUGUESE, FRENCH, ITALIAN AND ROMANIAN UNITE BACK AND FORM ONE LANGUAGE AS IN THE TIMES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (LATIN)!!! |
frau
7th June 2005 |
Why isn't the United States under Spanish language countries? 1 in 6 residents speak Spanish. |
Arun
2nd June 2005 |
India is a country which have most number of languages including loacal languages.and it is not ratedin the top list |
Arun
2nd June 2005 |
India is a country which have most number of languages including loacal languages.and it is not ratedin the top list |
Christof
26th May 2005 |
There have been polls for the hardest-to-learn and the easiest-to-learn languages by different organizations. Can you exploit these data? Or generate statistics of your own (weighting for pronunciation, grammar, readability ...)? I'd be interested in what is the easiest and the most difficult language in the world! |
Jina
23rd May 2005 |
India should be on the list, with 18 official languages and 96 other languages, it is one of the most linguistically rich countries in the world, and this does not include the dialects, which totals in around the 2500+ mark. It's listed in the 1991 census:
http://www.languageinindia.com/nov2001/1991Languages.html |
Ashley Worner
26th April 2005 |
Hong Kong has two official languages: Chinese (Cantonese) and English. About 70 million people all over the world speak Chinese (Cantonese). English is spoken by hundreds of millions of people today. |
nonya
25th April 2005 |
Can I get info for a page about Puerto Rico's language? |
Justin Barrass
20th April 2005 |
I'm the bloke who made the initial comment about the U.K. and I must agree wholeheartedly with "Annoyed Celt" here, as the nation has not been represented correctly. Granted, English is undoubtedly the first language of each part of the country, for most Welsh people, for example, cannot speak Welsh. However, a significant proportion can, so the language is most certainly used, as are the others I mentioned in my first posting. These are not fringe languages either, for in the parts where they are spoken, they are spoken to significant degrees. Perhaps I should point out that I'm not a Celtic separatist who's got a bee in his bonnet: I'm actually English, and can't speak any Celtic languages myself, excepting a smattering of Welsh, which I picked up in Bangor, where I studied for four years. Please note that I picked up some Welsh. Would that be possible if it wasn't used? Some say half the children there can't speak English till they start school, you know. Come on Nationmaster: let's get the facts straight. |
Annoyed Celt
14th April 2005 |
The United Kingdom is not being properly represented. There's at least English, Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Manx Gaelic, Cornish and Cambrian. These are not "dialects" of English but are distinct languages of entirely different linguistically origin to English. For example, Welsh is fully and legally an official language in Wales alongside English. It is also a legal requirement for important legal documents to be provided in Welsh. You can legally request to be arrested in the Welsh language. Road signs are universally bilingual and the Welsh names preceded the English names in all cases. It is a distinct language - separate to English, of distinctly different linguistically origin - that is among the oldest languages in Europe, if not the world. It is one of the most spoken minority languages in Europe. This absence is entirely unjust and could even be interpreted as a racial slur against the Celtic nations of the Union. British and English are not synonymous nationalities. |
Samuel
21st March 2005 |
I thought twenty-something languages are spoken in India. |
rfm
16th March 2005 |
All the Celtic languages have speakers.
Portuguese is the third most spoken language in the Western hemisphere and most spoken, by mother tongue(51%) in South America! |
keyser
3rd March 2005 |
i would like more info on the languages of world. If it's not here, could you suggest other websites? |
Justin Barrass
7th December 2004 |
Just a quick point on the search for Languages, as in number spoken. The list of the top 100 fails to include the United Kingdom, in which English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic are spoken, with Cornish having died yet Cumbrian being revived (though it's struggling). The list, however, includes North Korea, in which, it seems, only Korean is spoken. Could there be something amiss here? |
meo
2nd December 2004 |
this information will help me.. |
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