LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
INTRODUCTION
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Question
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Hakka
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Shanghainese
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Cantonese
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Mandarin
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mandarin (1, 118 million speakers) Looking at total speakers, Mandarin is the second most widely spoken language in the world. However, it’s the most spoken language in the world if you count only first-language (native) speakers due to China’s significant population.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to Ethnologue, Chinese (and all of its varieties such as Mandarin and Wu) is by far the most spoken language across the world with 1.31 billion speakers. That’s approximately 16 percent of the world’s population.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mandarin Chinese alone is the most widely spoken native language in the world: nearly a billion within China alone and 1.2 billion worldwide-a few hundred million people more than the next most widespread languages, Spanish and English.