The wonderful world of languages

According to various researchers, there exit over 7 thousand languages in the world today, although it must be pointed out that some of the known minority languages have less than 9 users. The most widely used language is Mandarin Chinese which counts over 1,000,000,000 speakers and the rarest is Taushiro, one of the Peruvian languages. It does not appear to have any evident resemblance to any other known language and only one person in the whole world can speak Taushiro fluently.

This is the list of the 10 most popular languages in the world according to the recent research conducted earlier in the year:

10. French
9. Malay-Indonesian
8. Portuguese
7. Bengali
6. Arabic
5. Russian
4. Spanish
3. Hindustani
2. English
1. Mandarin Chinese

It must be noted that Mandarin Chinese is not the easiest language to acquire due to its array of characters and tones. At the same time, according to the recent linguistic research, it is an easier language to study for dyslexic students due to the fact that it does not have an alphabet.