After English and Mandarin, Hindi-the third most spoken language in the world
With 615 million speakers all over the world, Hindi is the third most spoken language in the world. English is at the top with 1,132 million speakers followed by Mandarin with 1,117 million speakers.
Highlights
On February 18, 2020, the Ethnologue published its yearly database on living languages of the world. It covered more than 7,111 living languages. It also published data on languages that were gone out of usage in the recent history and that included around 348 languages.
It also said that Bangla is the 7th most spoken language in the world with 228 million native speakers.
Ethnologue
The Ethnologue is an annual publication that provides statistics of the living languages of the world. It is published by SIL International since 1951. The publication released this year in 2020 is its 22nd release.
The SIL International is a non-profit organization that documents languages. It is mainly into promotion of literacy and translation of Christian Bible. It was founded in 1933 with the aim of translating bible.
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Dr.Cajetan Coelho
March 5, 2020 at 8:07 pmHindi is a world language.