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When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian).
Top 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World
| Language | No. of Speaker | Say “Hello” |
| Mandarin | 1 billion+ | “Ni hao” (Nee HaOW) |
| English | 508 million | “What’s up, freak?” |
| Hindustani | 497 million | “Namaste” (Nah-MAH-stay) |
| Spanish | 392 million | “Hola” (OH-la) |
| Russian | 277 million | “Zdravstvuite” (ZDRAST-vet-yah) |
| Arabic | 246 million | “Al salaam a’alaykum” (Ahl sah-LAHM ah ah-LAY-koom) |
| Bengali | 211 million | “Ei Je” (EYE-jay) |
| Portuguese | 191 million | “Bom dia” (bohn DEE-ah) |
| Malay-Indonesian | 159 million | “Selamat pagi” (se-LA-maht PA-gee) |
| French | 129 million | “Bonjour” (bone-JOOR) |
nice text based on upsc requirment
Actually that ,states of west Bengal ,Tripura ,Assam ,jharkhanda ,in India are includes to the total population of Bengaladesh where Bengali language have the 3rd largest & popular language in world (west Bengal ,Assam ,Tripura ,jharkhanda etc live in total population about 16croral/ coti)
Assam is not part of WB. Assam has their own language called Assamese. They don’t speak bengal.
How come jharkand whole population is included for bengali.
I dont find Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada in any of the branches. The decan does not include Tamil or Malayalam.
Can we get to know about these Languages also if possible.
Thanks,
Janaki
Tamil is the oldest language of India. History of Tamil starts at “Kumari Kandam”.
Tamil does not find a mention. The uniqueness of Tamil is exclusive and NO OTHER Indian language can be compared. Every language is great but people should not make it greater than what it is. In what way Bengali is different from Hindi?
No mention of Tamil which is unique and different from Sanskrit/Hindustani or any other Indian language. Every language is great on its own merit. But people should not make it greater or older by their will.