What is the most spoken language in the world?

Question

Hola, Jadine here. This is a personal question.

Can you tell me the answer in your own words, be it in Spanish or English, without the help of your computer, looking up a book ,or looking it up forum as deliberated in Spanish Dict.com? I am relying on your honest and best answer.

My question is, if Latin was the first ever official language to evolve then in which order does Spanish or English rate? Meaning, what is the most spoken language in the world?

It's not a test, but a quest for my own personal satisfaction.

Anyway, I will only be to glad to hear from you.

Obligingly yours,

Jadine.

Hola, Jadine! Your question was a bit difficult to understand with all of those commas, so I edited your question. I hope you don't mind :) Buena pregunta, Jadine! - SonrisaDelSol, Aug 1, 2011

Answer 1

Latin the first ever official language to evolve? All languages evolve.

Which is the most spoken language in the World? English if we include people who speak it as a foreign language, or Mandarin as a first language.

I am certain that Latin made the first step in being the forerunner of all languages to follow. - Jadine, Aug 1, 2011

If it did someone made a very odd way of writing it. - ian-hill, Aug 1, 2011

I did start my question with "if" - Jadine, Aug 1, 2011

Yes, but all languages evolve, so your "if" would force us to assume hypothetically that all other thousands of languages did not evolve for some reason. - lazarus1907, Aug 1, 2011

Answer 2

Jadine, I have been directing you to the Café forever now, it seems, but you seem to like to open your own threads. Well,don't be all? but if a thread already exists and not one but a dozen, well, then it can't be done.

Please make a search for your questions. Thanks.

No you misunderstand me ,i thought anything concerning, getting on with people came first ,but if you maybe think i am trying to dominate any scene then i,ll take my leave .Just for the first time ever i felt free to be human ,thank you - Jadine, Aug 1, 2011

Answer 3

I am certain that Latin made the first step in being the forerunner of all languages to follow.

All languages? From all the nearly 6000 languages in the world, only about a dozen of them come from Latin, and not even 1% of them have been influenced by it. I don't know what you mean.

Well that,s a very good answer,but where do you think it stemmed from? - Jadine, Aug 1, 2011

What? Latin? It is an Indo-European language, like English. - lazarus1907, Aug 1, 2011

Answer 4

I believe Spanish is more widely spoken as a first language. But if you are asking which came first, I believe it was Spanish. That being said, and despite the fact that the two languages share a lot of words as cognates, it is not the case that English came from Spanish or vice versa. Spanish, as you mentioned, is derived from Latin, as are Italian, Portugese and some others. English, on the other hand is a Germanic language. It is derived originally from German.

That is what i like to hear,you are speaking honestly - Jadine, Aug 1, 2011

Answer 5

Ohh my, there is much research needed here,It is not so easy.

food for thought. - Jadine, Aug 1, 2011

Answer 6

Huh?

Hola Tu no comprendes? - Jadine, Aug 1, 2011

I a m withya, steph, major huh? lol - 00494d19, Aug 1, 2011

my name is Jadine not steph, capitano - Jadine, Aug 1, 2011

Answer 7

Regarding English have a look here:

Was English spoken in England before the arrival of the Romans?

Fascinating, is this mainstream or fringe? - Stadt, Aug 1, 2011

Answer 8

Lazarus is right here. Plenty of other languages have evolved and died and influenced other languages irrespective of the influence of Latin. It's an interesting subject if a person is interested in studying a bit of history.

Answer 9

I guess the first "language" was sign language - or body language