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| Popular Languages | The statistics says that there are about three thousand languages spoken throughout the world. On the other hand, the majority of them are spoken by just a small number of people, do not have written forms (alphabets) and no one can understand them except for these only some native speakers.
The choice of languages which could develop themselves and increase international population and acknowledgment has been made as a result of historical facts of definite nations speaking these languages. The majority of globally spoken and recognized languages belonged to the nations which conquered and discovered new lands and, consequently could play a specific role in and make enormous influence on other nations and the world history.
At the present time there are about two hundred and fifty such languages. They were chosen by more than one million of people speaking them. Certainly, there are leading ones which are spoken not simply by native speakers but a lot of non-natives all through the world among these languages. They are:
  English,
Spanish,
French,
German,
Chinese,
Japanese,
Arabic,
Russian
some others.
These languages are used in almost every sphere of human life particularly tourism and business for the reason that these spheres require meeting different people and understanding among them is extremely significant. So such languages are taught at schools, so as citizens can with no trouble to use them in their every day life.
The popularity of the languages listed above is caused by their nations active historical participation in the world history. The majority of them were engage in the world wars, discoveries and trade. A number of them had colonies all through the world and had extended their languages among hundreds of other nations. The British, the Spansih and the French colonists were the largest in the world.
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