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Europe is the poorest in languages
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TDC
Triglot
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31 March 2011 at 4:20pm | IP Logged

This is what I found from wikipedia. These are numbers (in millions) of native speakers for the most spoken European languages. Totaled, it equals 1.4141 billion speakers or about almost 21% of the total world population.

Spanish - 329
English - 328
Portuguese - 178
Russian - 123
German - 90
French - 68
Italian - 62
Polish - 40
Ukrainian - 37
Romanian - 23
Dutch - 22
Serbo-Croatian - 16
Greek - 13
Hungarian - 12.5
Catalan - 11.5
Bulgarian - 11.2
Czech - 9.5
Belarusian - 8.6
Swedish - 8.3
Danish - 5.6
Finnish - 5.1
Slovak - 5
Norwegian - 4.6
Lithuanian - 3.2

Edited by TDC on 31 March 2011 at 4:22pm
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Sennin
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31 March 2011 at 5:45pm | IP Logged

Quote:

Europe is the poorest in languages

Bah. For all practical goals and purposes it is one of the richest. It is a great place to study languages.
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Juаn
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31 March 2011 at 6:05pm | IP Logged

Europe is the richest in languages worth studying.
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Marc Frisch
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05 April 2011 at 3:50pm | IP Logged

FrostBlast wrote:

If even a language as important as Latin can die out

Latin did not die out, it evolved over time and its current forms, the Romance language, are spoken today by hundreds of millions of people.

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