| Agreed, English is truly world wide in its distribution | | | | language of West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh is |
| than all other spoken languages and it is an official | | | | spoken by 207,000,000 native speakers in 9 |
| language in 52 countries. In addition, 1/4 to 1/3 of | | | | countries of the world. It is used by over |
| the people in the world understands and speaks | | | | 100,000,000 people worldwide as their first |
| English to some degree. It has become the most | | | | language.Telugu, the State Language of the |
| useful language to learn for international travel and | | | | Eastern state of Andhra Pradesh,is spoken by |
| is now the de facto language of diplomacy. Yet | | | | over 73 Million people worldwide.Gujarati, a native |
| when you compare some of the Indian languages | | | | language of India has 46 million-first language |
| to English, did you know ?Hindi, the official national | | | | speakers. It is spoken, other than many States in |
| language in India, comes second in the world, | | | | India, in Bangladesh, Fiji, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, |
| after Mandarin Chinese, with 366,000,000 | | | | Oman, Pakistan, Reunion, Singapore, South Africa, |
| numbers of native speakers worldwide. More than | | | | Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Zambia, |
| Spanish and English !17 countries of the world are | | | | Zimbabwe. |
| inhabited by Hindi speakers.Bengali, the native | | | | |