Can you order your fast food in four different languages spoken in the world? If yes, then you are multilingual. Because there are less than four percent people in the world who can speak 4 different languages. It means there is very low percentage of people in the world who can speak four different languages. And what about five different languages?
If a person is fluent in speaking five different languages is called polyglot.
If you are fluent in three different languages, you are a trilingual.
A person fluent in two different languages is called bilingual and if fluent in one language only is called monolingual.
40 percent population of the world is monolingual, 43 percent is bilingual, 13 percent is trilingual, approx. 3 percent is multilingual and polyglot is less than 1 percent.
Do you know the approx. number of languages spoken in the world? The answer is surprising. You can take a survey. You can start it with your friends and people in your circle. This could be an amazing thing for you. I have done that and get different answers. Some of my friends said below 100, some said approx. 200 and a person said maximum 550.
But here is the right answer. According to the latest figures, there are more than 7000 languages spoken in the world. More than half percent population of the world is speaking just 23 languages. In the list of most languages spoken in the world, Mandarin Chinese is on top level.
Now some people confuse here because when I asked this question to my friends, they said English, but it is not true. Most spoken language Mandarin Chinese is on top due to huge population of China which is one of the most languages spoken in the world. In this article we will also discuss top 7 most spoken languages in the world.
We have also selected a commonly speaking word “Sun” which we will translate in below mentioned seven different languages.
Mandarin Chinese
The total number of Mandarin Chinese speakers is 1.08 billion approx. Out of which 896 million are native speakers and only 192 million are non-native speakers. This is the National language of China. Name in the language itself is普通话. As we discussed, we have selected a word Sun.
How to say “Sun” in Chinese Language mentioned below.
| Word | In Chinese |
| Sun | 太阳 |
If you want to know how to say sun in different languages, you can visit The Different Languages.
English
English is the primary language of many countries in the world like New Zealand, Canada, Australia, UK and USA and the secondary language in Philippines, India and Singapore etc. It is a universal language which spoken in many countries in the world.
The total number of English speakers is 985 million approx all around the world. Out of which 374 million are native speakers and 611 million are non-native speakers. Name of English in English is English and everyone knows that. There is no need to discuss how to say Sun in English because everyone also knows that. But we have mentioned below.
| Word | In English |
| Sun | Sun |
Hindi
Hindi is the National language of India and collective of Hindi and Urdu. But Urdu is Official language of Pakistan. Name of language itself is हिन्दी and in urdu ہندی . Total number of Hindi speakers in the world 546 million out of which native speakers are 330 million and non-native speakers are 216 million.
| Word | In Hindi |
| Sun | रवि |
Spanish
Spanish has the same language family as English. Total number of Spanish speakers are 527 million out of which 436 million are native speakers and 91 million are non-native speakers. Name of language itself is Española.
How to say “Sun” in Spanish is mentioned below.
| Word | In Spanish |
| Sun | sol |
Arabic
In 26 counties of the world, Arabic is official language and It is the language of Islam which is the largest religion. It is the holy language and the Holy Quran is also in Arabic Language.
There are more than 422 million Arabic speakers out of which 290 million are native speakers and 132 million are non-native. This language is written from right to left. Name of language itself is عربي
How to say “Sun” in Arabic in mentioned below.
| Word | In Arabic |
| Sun | شمس |
Malay
The official language in Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia is Malay. It also spoken in some parts of Philippines and Thailand. The total number of speakers of this language is 281 million out of which 77 million are native speakers and 204 million are non-native. Name of language itself is melayu.
How to say “Sun” in Malay is mentioned below.
| Word | In Malay |
| Sun | Matahari |
Russian
Russian is the official language of four countries Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and also spoken in many other countries. Total number of speakers are 266 million out of which 153 million are native speakers and 113 are non-native speakers. Name in language itself is русский
How to say “Sun” in Malay is mentioned below.
| Word | In Russian |
| Sun | солнце |
