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European Obesity Rate By Country 2024
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Most spoken languages worldwide:
1. English: 1,132 million
2. Mandarin Chinese: 1,117 million
3. Hindi: 615 million
4. Spanish: 534 million
5. French: 280 million
6. Standard Arabic: 274 million
7. Bengali: 265 million
8. Russian: 258 million
9. Portuguese: 234 million
10. Indonesian: 199 million
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11. Urdu: 170 million
12. German: 132 million
13. Japanese: 128 million
16. Telugu: 93 million
18. Wu Chinese: 81 million
20. Turkish: 79 million
21. Korean: 77 million
22. Vietnamese: 76 million
23. Yue Chinese: 73 million
25. Italian: 68 million
26. Egyptian Arabic: 64 million
28. Thai : 60 million
31. Persian Iranian: 53 million
36. Filipino : 45 million
38. Polish: 40 million
48. Algerian Arabic: 32 million
50. Nigerian Pidgin: 30 million
58. Romanian: 24 million
60. Dutch: 23 million
68. Khmer: 17.5 million
79. Nigerian Fulfulde: 14.5 million
86. Czech: 13.3 million
87. Greek: 13.1 million
90. Swedish: 12.8 million
92. Hungarian: 12.5 million
100. Sanaani Arabic: 11.3 million
According to Ethnologue and other sources across the web
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Facts about Indonesian
Indonesian is a standardised form of Malay.
Indonesian has a simple and phonetic writing system.
Indonesian has polite speech levels.
With over 270 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world.
#language #switzerland
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Surprised to see France so low and Norway so high. Wonder why? 🤔
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The 12 most spoken languages on Earth:
English: 1,500,000,000
Mandarin: 1,100,000,000
Hindi: 609,500,000
Spanish: 559,100,000
French: 309,800,000
Standard Arabic: 274,000,000
Bengali: 272,800,000
Portuguese: 263,600,000
Russian: 255,000,000
Urdu: 231,700,000
Indonesian: 199,100,000
German: 133,200,000
Note: number of speakers in 2023
According to Ethnologue
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The 10 Most Common Official Languages In The World:
1. English — 60 Countries
2. French — 29 Countries
3. Arabic — 23 Countries
4. Spanish — 20 Countries
5. Portuguese — 10 Countries
6. German — 6 Countries
=7. Russian — 5 Countries
=7. Swahili — 5 Countries
=9. Malay — 4 Countries
=9. Italian — 4 Countries
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Finland’s education system is one of the best in the world
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Number of languages spoken in Africa by country in 2022:
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 520 languages spoken
🇨🇲 Cameroon: 277
🇨🇩 DRC: 214
🇹🇩 Chad: 129
🇹🇿 Tanzania: 128
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: 92
🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire: 88
🇬🇭 Ghana: 83
🇸🇩 Sudan: 75
🇸🇸 South Sudan: 73
🇨🇫 CA Republic: 72
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso: 71
🇰🇪 Kenya: 68
🇲🇱 Mali: 68
🇨🇬 Republic of Congo: 62
🇧🇯 Benin: 55
🇿🇲 Zambia: 47
🇦🇴 Angola: 45
🇲🇿 Mozambique: 44
🇺🇬 Uganda: 44
🇹🇬 Togo: 44
🇬🇦 Gabon: 43
🇸🇳 Senegal: 39
🇬🇳 Guinea: 37
🇿🇦 South Africa: 31
🇱🇷 Liberia: 31
🇧🇼 Botswana: 31
🇳🇦 Namibia: 28
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone: 24
🇳🇪 Niger: 23
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau: 23
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: 23
🇪🇬 Egypt: 20
🇩🇿 Algeria: 19
🇲🇼 Malawi: 17
🇪🇷 Eritrea: 15
🇲🇦 Morocco: 15
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea: 15
🇲🇬 Madagascar: 14
🇸🇴 Somalia: 13
🇬🇲 Gambia: 11
🇱🇾 Libya: 9
🇲🇺 Mauritius: 9
🇸🇹 Sao Tome & Principe: 7
🇲🇷 Mauritania: 7
🇰🇲 Comoros: 7
🇹🇳 Tunisia: 6
🇷🇼 Rwanda: 6
🇩🇯 Djibouti: 5
🇱🇸 Lesotho: 5
🇸🇿 Eswatini: 5
🇪🇭 Western Sahara: 4
🇧🇮 Burundi: 4
🇸🇨 Seychelles: 4
As of 2022, there were over 2,000 living languages in Africa. With 520 languages, 🇳🇬 Nigeria accounted for around a fourth of the total languages spoken in Africa. 🇨🇲 Cameroon and 🇨🇩 the Democratic Republic of the Congo followed, each with over 200 living languages.
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Most spoken languages worldwide:
1. English: 1,132 million
2. Mandarin Chinese: 1,117 million
3. Hindi: 615 million
4. Spanish: 534 million
5. French: 280 million
6. Standard Arabic: 274 million
7. Bengali: 265 million
8. Russian: 258 million
9. Portuguese: 234 million
10. Indonesian: 199 million
.
11. Urdu: 170 million
12. German: 132 million
13. Japanese: 128 million
16. Telugu: 93 million
18. Wu Chinese: 81 million
20. Turkish: 79 million
21. Korean: 77 million
22. Vietnamese: 76 million
23. Yue Chinese: 73 million
25. Italian: 68 million
26. Egyptian Arabic: 64 million
28. Thai : 60 million
31. Iranian: 53 million
36. Filipino : 45 million
38. Polish: 40 million
48. Algerian Arabic: 32 million
50. Nigerian Pidgin: 30 million
58. Romanian: 24 million
60. Dutch: 23 million
68. Khmer: 17.5 million
79. Nigerian Fulfulde: 14.5 million
86. Czech: 13.3 million
87. Greek: 13.1 million
90. Swedish: 12.8 million
92. Hungarian: 12.5 million
100. Sanaani Arabic: 11.3 million
According to Ethnologue and other sources across the web
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Iranian is not a language. Persian is a language. It is spoken by about 130M people worldwide and not 53M.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_l…
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🚓 The word “police” in different languages:
🇦🇱 policia
🇧🇾 паліцыя
🇧🇦 policija
🇧🇬 полиция
🇭🇷 policija
🇨🇿 policie
🇩🇰 politi
🇳🇱 Politie
🇪🇪 politsei
🇫🇮 Poliisi
🇫🇷 police
🇩🇪 Polizei
🇭🇺 rendőrség 😳
🇮🇩 POLISI
🇮🇸 Lögreglu 😳
🇮🇪 póilíní
🇮🇹 Polizia
🇰🇿 полиция
🇱🇻 policija
🇱🇹 policija
🇱🇺 Police
🇲🇰 полицијата
🇳🇴 politiet
🇵🇱 Policja
🇵🇹 polícia
🇷🇴 politie
🇷🇺 полиция
🇷🇸 полиција
🇸🇮 policija
🇪🇸 policía
🇸🇪 polis
🇹🇷 polis
🇺🇦 поліція
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Literal translation for country names in Chinese:
🇦🇺Australia: Big bay, inferior profits
🇧🇾Belarus: White Russia
🇧🇪Belgium: Time to compare profits
🇧🇷Brazil: Next to the West
🇧🇬Bulgaria: Protect addition, profit secondary
🇨🇦Canada: Add grab big
🇨🇱Chile: Favorable Wisdom
🇨🇳China: Middle Kingdom
🇪🇬Egypt: Catching up to dust
🇫🇮Finland: Sweet-smelling Orchid
🇫🇷France: Law Land
🇩🇪Germany: Moral land
🇬🇷Greece: Hope for BBQ
🇬🇹Guatemala: Land of danger, horse pulls
🇭🇹Haiti: Sea land
🇮🇳India: Degree of printing
🇮🇪Ireland: Love your orchids
🇮🇹Italy: Hoping for big profits
🇯🇵Japan: Land of the Rising Sun
🇲🇾Malaysia: Horse comes to West Asia
🇲🇽Mexico: Ink west older brother
🇳🇴Norway: Move prestige
🇵🇰Pakistan: Hope base this frank
🇵🇪Peru: Unfriendly Secret
🇷🇺Russia: Sudden country
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia: Sand special earth. A pull senior
🇸🇬Singapore: Newly added slope
🇿🇦South Africa: South Africa
🇰🇷South Korea: Fence country
🇪🇸Spain: Western class teeth
🇸🇪Sweden: Very lucky soldiers
🇨🇭Switzerland: Lucky gentleman
🇹🇭Thailand: Country of peace
🇹🇷Turkey: Earth ear its
🇦🇪UAE: A pull senior. Join big duchy
🇺🇦Ukraine: Dark gram orchid
🇬🇧United Kingdom: Brave Land
🇺🇸USA: Beautiful Country
🇻🇳Vietnam: More south