There are more than 3,000 million people on the earth and about 2,500 languages. Of these languages only about twelve are used by more than 50 million people.
Here are the names of some languages which have very wide use: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese. etc. All these languages have more people speaking them today than ever before. A hundread and fifty years ago there were only about twenty million people who talked in English, for example. Now there are at least two hundred and fifty million, and there may be many, many more.的意思,谢谢