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An additional 75 million speak Spanish as a second or foreign language, making it the fourth most spoken language in the world overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindi with a total number of 538 million speakers. [31]
Spanish East Timor: 2 Portuguese [51] Tetum [51] Ecuador [52] 1 Spanish; Languages of ethnic groups are official in their territories Spanish [e] Kichwa [e] Shuar [e] Egypt: 1 Arabic Coptic: Egyptian Arabic: English: El Salvador: 1 Spanish Equatorial Guinea: 3 French; Portuguese; Spanish; Eritrea: 1 Tigrinya: Arabic; Italian; Estonia: 1 ...
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [9] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of the Government of India, alongside English, and it is also the lingua franca of North India.
The epic poem Beowulf is written in West Saxon, and the earliest English poem, Cædmon's Hymn, is written in Northumbrian. [37] Modern English developed mainly from Mercian, but the Scots language developed from Northumbrian. A few short inscriptions from the early period of Old English were written using a runic script. [38]
Though written in a number of different scripts, the dominant language of Hindu texts has been Sanskrit. It or a hybrid form of Sanskrit became the preferred language of Mahayana Buddhism scholarship; [ 145 ] for example, one of the early and influential Buddhist philosophers, Nagarjuna ( c. 200 CE), used Classical Sanskrit as the language for ...
The Constitution of California was written in both English (left) and Spanish (right) by both American and Californio delegates. Spanish is the most commonly spoken language in California, behind English, spoken by 28.18% (10,434,308) of the population (in 2021). [ 233 ]
Aesop (left) as depicted by Francis Barlow in the 1687 edition of Aesop's Fables with His Life.. Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.