Facts about Languages spoken in the World












Language with most number of speakers
Mandarin Chinese (1.08 billion)
Language isolate with most number of speakers
Korean (78 million)
Most widespread spoken language
English (73 countries and territories)
Longest Alphabet
Khmer script (74 letters)
Shortest Alphabet
Rotokas alphabet
 (12 letters, A E I G K O P R S T U V)
Country with the most number of languages
India, at least 8000 different languages
And around 2000 dialects have been
Indentified.
Country with the most number of official
Languages
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)