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A world language is not only characterized by the number of its speakers... world language has the following properties...
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English
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Islamic conquests
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population growth
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Sanskrit
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Romance languages
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Latin
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Koine Greek
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Hellenistic period
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Modern Greek
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Arabic
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Turkic
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Turkic languages
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Turkic Khaganate
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imperialism
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universal language
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internationalism
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international auxiliary languages
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Esperanto
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Italian
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Dutch
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Hungarian
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German
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Malay
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Eastern Roman Empire
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Koine Greek
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Western Roman Empire
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Vulgar Latin
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Latin Europe
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Turkic Khaganate
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Turkic languages
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de facto
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lingua franca
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standard register
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taught
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foreign language
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ethnic
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multiethnic
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pluricentric language
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official
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international trade relations
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international organizations
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academic community
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literature
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linguistic prestige
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official languages of the UN
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Mandarin Chinese
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Greater China
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Standard Mandarin
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Vernacular Chinese
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National Languages Committee
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English
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Anglosphere
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worldwide
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Standard English
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Hindustani
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Hindi
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Urdu
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Indian subcontinent
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Hindi belt
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Pakistan
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Khariboli
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Standard Hindi
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Urdu
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Central Hindi Directorate
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National Language Authority
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Spanish
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Hispanophone
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Standard Spanish
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Real Academia Española
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Association of Spanish Language Academies
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Arabic
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Arab world
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Near East
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North Africa
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Standard Arabic
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Academy of the Arabic Language
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Russian
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Russia
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Eastern Europe
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Russian Far East
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former Soviet Union
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Russian Academy of Sciences
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French
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Francophonie
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Standard French
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Académie française
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Office québécois de la langue française
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Council for the Development of French in Louisiana
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Portuguese
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Lusosphere
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Portugal
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Brazil
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Angola
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International Portuguese Language Institute
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Community of Portuguese Language Countries
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German
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German-speaking Europe
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Standard German
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Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung
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Arab world
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Arabic varieties
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Indosphere
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Hindustani language
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Sinosphere
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Chinese language
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German-speaking Europe
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German language
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Russian language
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Lusosphere
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Portuguese language
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Hispanosphere
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Spanish language
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Anglosphere
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English language
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Francophonie
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French language
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SIL Ethnologue
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Bengali
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Japanese
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Sprachraum
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Chinese diaspora
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German diaspora
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Indian diaspora
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macrolanguages
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pluricentric languages
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Chinese dialects
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Arabic dialects
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Hindi dialects
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German dialects
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Nobel Prize in Literature
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English
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French
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German
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Spanish
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Italian
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Swedish
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Russian
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Eurocentric
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printing press
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Nobel prize
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Alfred Nobel
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Lingua franca
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Bengali
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Bengal
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Bangla Academy
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Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
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Malay
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Southeast Asia
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Malay world
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Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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Persian
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Greater Iran
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Academy of Persian Language and Literature
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Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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Filipino
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Philippines
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Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
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Swahili
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East Africa
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Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa
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Dutch
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Afrikaans
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Dutch-speaking world
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Dutch Language Union
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Italian
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Italy
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adjacent regions
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Accademia della Crusca
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Greater Persia
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Persian
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Swahili
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Dutch-speaking world
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Dutch language
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Punjabi language
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ISBN 9042008768
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Mario Pei
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ISBN 0819602183
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ISBN 185359590X
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ISBN 0521530326
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ISBN 0415156556
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List of languages by number of speakers
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Ethnologue list of most spoken languages
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International English
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