Language with most number of
speakers
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Mandarin Chinese (1.08 billion)
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Language isolate with most
number of speakers
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Korean (78 million)
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Most widespread spoken
language
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English (73 countries and territories)
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Longest Alphabet
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Khmer script (74 letters)
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Shortest Alphabet
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Rotokas alphabet
(12 letters, A E I G K O P R S
T U V)
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Country with the most number
of languages
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India, at least 8000 different languages
And around 2000 dialects have been
Indentified.
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Country with the most number
of official
Languages
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India with total 23 official languages
(Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English,
Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,
Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri,
Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit,
Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu)
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