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Doublethink по Оруэллу.
Вики-книга про языки, цитирую из разных мест:
For about 380 million people English is a native language, because they learned it when they were young children. However, possibly a billion people have learned the language as adults. Overall, only Mandarin Chinese is spoken by more people as a native language.
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There are varying estimates for how many people speak Hindi, said to be second to fourth of any language for the number of people speaking it. The number of native speakers varies upon adding very closely related dialects or not. Estimates range from 340 million to 500 million speakers, and as many as 800 million people may understand the language.
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There are more than 400 million people across the globe who speak Spanish as their first language.
Также из википедии здесь.
Вики-книга про языки, цитирую из разных мест:
For about 380 million people English is a native language, because they learned it when they were young children. However, possibly a billion people have learned the language as adults. Overall, only Mandarin Chinese is spoken by more people as a native language.
[...]
There are varying estimates for how many people speak Hindi, said to be second to fourth of any language for the number of people speaking it. The number of native speakers varies upon adding very closely related dialects or not. Estimates range from 340 million to 500 million speakers, and as many as 800 million people may understand the language.
[...]
There are more than 400 million people across the globe who speak Spanish as their first language.
Также из википедии здесь.
