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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Is the Tower of Babel still affecting us or something?

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We have 8 billion people, yet the best we could muster for the most total speakers of a language is under 2 billion, including non-natives...

  1. English (1,452 million speakers) First language: 372.9 million Total speakers: 1.4+ billion According to Ethnologue, English is the most-spoken language in the world including native and non-native speakers.

https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world#:~:text=1.,English%20(1%2C452%20million%20speakers)&text=According%20to%20Ethnologue%2C%20English%20is,native%20and%20non%2Dnative%20speakers.

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[-] Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 6 months ago

Erm erm, one sec.

~Love is the Universal language~

Ok you can crucify me now xD

[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 18 points 6 months ago
[-] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago

Even the Tower of Babel cannot take this from us.

[-] jaykay@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

๐Ÿ˜? ๐Ÿ˜‰? ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿซฆ๐Ÿ†โœŠ๐Ÿ‘…๐Ÿ’ฆ๐Ÿ’ฆ๐Ÿคค๐Ÿ˜ช

Who needs a language

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

We have NTT DoCoMo to thank for that.

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