LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Which languages are spoken most in Asia? With an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, the Asian continent is the largest on earth. About 4.5 billion people live in the 47 internationally recognised states in Asia and they speak over 2, 000 different languages.

Detailed explanation-2: -The three most widely spoken languages in Asia-Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, and Russian-are often considered to be the most intimidating languages by beginner learners. Unlike most of the languages spoken across Europe and South America, these three languages have distinct alphabets or character systems.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some continents have more languages than others Not all continents are equally diverse in the number of spoken languages. Whereas Asia leads the statistics with 2, 301 languages, Africa follows closely with 2, 138. There are about 1, 300 languages in the Pacific, and 1, 064 in South and North America.

Detailed explanation-4: -However, a majority of Asians speak the common languages associated with the continent; Chinese, Hindi, English, Russian, Indonesian, Bengali, and Japanese.