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प्रश्न
Study the pie-chart carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Percentage of people who speak each language as their first language.
- Which language is spoken by most people?
- What are the Indian languages that rank among the top five spoken languages?
- Which are the languages that are spoken by less than three percent of people?
- With the help of the questions and answers, draw your own conclusions from the pie chart. Then, write a paragraph on the popular spoken languages.
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उत्तर
- Mandarin is spoken by most people.
- Hindi and Bengali rank among the top five languages spoken in the world.
- Hindi, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, German and Javanese are the languages spoken by less than 3% of people of the world.
- A majority of people in China speak Mandarin. It constitutes 12.44$ of the world population. Spanish is spoken more than English (i.e) 0.2% more people in the world speak Spanish (i.e) (4.85%). Hindi, Bengali, and Portuguese are spoken by a minority of around 2.7% of the world population. A minority of just 1.25% of the world population speaks Javanese, the Russian language is spoken only by a minority of 2.12% of people, in the world. As low as 1.8% of people speak the Japanese language. Many other languages are little known in the world or spoken by other people in the world for which exact statistics are not available. There are many fast disappearing languages that have no written script. Along with a language, culture also disappears.
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