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Highly Spoken Languages in the world
December 23rd, 2009 | 
Author: Highly Spoken Languages in the world
Today I had an argument with my friends telling English is not the largest spoken language in the world. My argument was based on assumption that China was the populous country in the world and I assumed Chinese to the largest spoken language.
After coming home I Googled and startled to know these facts.
- Thought English to be second highly spoken language. But to my surprise English was 3rd highly spoken after Spanish.
- Six Indian languages were placed in top 20 highly spoken languages list.
- Tamil has 19th position.
So here is the list of languages and their rating.
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| 1 | Mandarin Chinese | 845,000,000 | |||
| 2 | Spanish | 329,000,000 | |||
| 3 | English | 328,000,000 | |||
| 4 | Hindi | 242,000,000 | |||
| 5 | Arabic | 221,000,000 | |||
| 6 | Bengali | 181,000,000 | |||
| 7 | Portuguese | 178,000,000 | |||
| 8 | Russian | 144,000,000 | |||
| 9 | Japanese | 122,000,000 | |||
| 10 | German | 90,300,000 | |||
| 11 | Javanese | 84,600,000 | |||
| 12 | Wu | 77,200,000 | |||
| 13 | Punjabi | 78,300,000 | |||
| 14 | French | 67,800,000 | |||
| 15 | Telugu | 69,800,000 | |||
| 16 | Vietnamese | 68,600,000 | |||
| 17 | Marathi | 68,100,000 | |||
| 18 | Korean | 66,300,000 | |||
| 19 | Tamil | 65,700,000 | |||
| 20 | Italian | 61,700,000 |
Vincent Poovaragan my favorate character
Today I was watching Dasavataram where Kamal Hassan portrays 10 different roles. For long I wanted to write a blog about my favorite role but I forgot for some reason. Today I thought it would be right time to dedicate my favorite one.
Vincent Poovaragan portrays role of an illiterate Dalit who fights to uplift his community and an activist who fights form Mud Mafia. Dialogue delivery of this role is very powerful which has lots of punch lines, social message, affection, leadership messages etc. spoken in Tamil in Naragkoil lingo.
Who else could have justice to such a powerful role other than Kamal. This particular character fairs well in makeup / getup, dialogue delivery, characterization et more. I think Kamal can get an Oscar for this role alone.
Posted in Movies, Personal | Tags: dalit, dasavataram, kamal hasan, movie, nagarkoil, oscar, tamil | 
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