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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.

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Japanese

Language; World languages

Japanese has around 125 million speakers. Japanese has no genetic relationship with Chinese, but it makes extensive use of Chinese characters, or kanji, in its writing system, and ...

Serbian

Language; World languages

The Serbian language has more than 16 million native speakers. It's a Slavic language that uses both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet. This language has very rich system of ...

Chinese

Language; World languages

It's no surprise that Chinese tops the list of the most difficult languages in the world. Nearly 1.2 billion people (around 16% of the world's population) speak some form of ...

Hindi/Urdu

Language; World languages

Although they have different written forms, Hindi and Urdu share a history, many common words, and a grammar. Many linguists consider them different “registers” of the same common ...

English

Language; World languages

English used to be the second-most common language, but Spanish-speakers have increased much more rapidly over the past 15 years. Still, scholars have named English the world’s ...

Mandarin

Language; World languages

With over 955 million speakers, Mandarin claims the top spot as the world’s most common language. One of the five major dialects of Chinese, Mandarin is the official language of ...

Japanese

Language; World languages

Out of the approximately 125 million people who speak Japanese, 124 million live in Japan and the island group of Okinawa. This makes it unusual among the most common languages in ...