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Hindi is a very melodious and phonetic language. It is the national language of India and is spoken by millions of people not only in the native country but also in several other countries. It is also the language of a long literary tradition, both in modern prose and poetry, as well as pre-modern ...

Around 85 million people speak Italian including the 59 million inhabitants of Italy itself and around half a million citizens of Switzerland, where it is one of four official languages. Italian is also spoken in parts of several Balkan countries including Albania, Croatia and Slovenia.

There are more than 125 million native speakers of Japanese and, despite the language's apparent complexity, its popularity as a second language is growing (particularly in China, South Korea and Australia).

Korean is spoken by more than 78 million people. The number of Korean language learners has remarkably grown in the past few decades beyond the Korean peninsula; a growth due mostly to South Korea’s increasingly visible roles in the world economy, technological innovation, and global popular cult...

For anyone with an interest in European history however, a working knowledge of Latin is essential. The earliest examples date back to the third century BC but it was the expansion of the Roman Empire which established Latin as a lingua franca around the Mediterranean.

Poland has a population of about 40 million, but with increasingly wide-ranging Polish communities throughout Europe and around the world, Polish is fast becoming an important and useful international language. It is also the second most-spoken Slavic language, after Russian.

Portugal has a population of just over 10 million, so why is Portuguese spoken by 250 million people around the world? One word: Brazil. It is also the official language of eight countries: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guine-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tome and Príncipe.

The Punjabi language represents one of the major linguistic groups worldwide. With more than 125 million speakers worldwide, it may not come as a surprise that it is the third most spoken language in Leicester. The region of Punjab is located in Asia across two countries.

Russian is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world, with more than 150 million native speakers and another 110 million or so who speak it as a secondary language, mostly in former Soviet Union republics such as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Ukraine, and Georgia.

With 483 million native speakers, Spanish is the second most used language internationally, after English, and is second only to Mandarin in global native speakers. Today native Spanish speakers make up 7.6% of the entire population of the world.