LANGUAGE MOST SPOKEN
There are 383,000,000 Chinese speakimr the same language, making Chinese, the most spoken language. There arc so many dialects which are entirely different that they seem scarcely to belong to-the same tongue. The inhabitants of Mongolia and Thibet can barely, understand the dialect of the people in Pekin, Putting Chinese aside, the most spoken languages are as follows, in millions:—English, 120; German, 70; Kussian, 68r Spanish, 44; Portuguese, 32.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5372, 3 September 1904, Page 12
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72LANGUAGE MOST SPOKEN New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5372, 3 September 1904, Page 12
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