RUSSIAN THE 5 MOS T SPOKEN

LANGUAGES
The Russian language is a Slavic
language whose origins go back IN THE WORLD
over 1000 years ago. The sixth
century AD saw the migration of
the Slavic peoples of the territo-
ry that today occupies Poland.
The Slavs expanded westward
to the Elbe River and south to
the Adriatic Sea, where they
gradually occupied much of
what is now the Balkans. By the
tenth century, three groups of
Slavic languages had emerged:
Western, Southern and Eastern.
Eastern Slavic gave rise to mod-
ern languages known as Ukrain-
ian, Belarusian and Russian.

HINDI

El hindi es uno de los dos idio-

mas con carácter oficial en la
India, junto con el inglés y otras
22 lenguas en diversos estados
del país de carácter coofi-
cial. Está estrechamente relacio-
nado con el urdu (lengua oficial
de la República Islámica de Pa-
kistán). UNIVERSIDAD CÉSAR VALLEJO
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CHINESE MANDARIN ENGLISH set. It is the main language
The Chinese language is the in Spain and 20 American
most widely spoken language English is a Germanic lan- countries, and is also offi-
in the world, with more than guage of the Indo- cial in Equatorial Guinea. It
900 million people (one-fifth European family. Today it is is also called Castilian, hav-
of the world's population) who the second most spoken ing its origin in the medie-
speak it as their mother language in the world, after val kingdom of Castile.
tongue. It is spoken in China, Chinese, with 508 million
Taiwan, Singapore, Hong more people using it offi- Spanish is a Romance lan-
Kong and Malaysia. cially. English, although not guage of the Iberian group.
the first language in num- It is one of the six official
The Chinese language family
ber of users, is the most languages of the UN and
consists of several dialects,
widespread in the world, one of the most spoken of
traditionally classified into 7
and is on its way to be- the planet, only surpassed
groups: dialects of the north,
come the universal lan- by Chinese and English. It
Wu dialects, Xiang dialects,
guage. employs about 560 million
Gan dialects, kejia or hakka
dialects, Min dialects and Yue people and more than 400
dialects. million use it as a native
language.
Mandarin Chinese is one of
the northern dialects (the one
spoken in Beijing, the capital),
and it is the language we
know as the Chinese lan-
guage, since it is official
throughout the country.

ESPANISH

Spanish or Castilian is a
Romance language, derived
from vulgar Latin, that be-
longs to the subfamily itáli-
ca within the indoeuropeo