Spanish is the second most spoken language after Mandarin according to the number of native speakers in the world with around 470 million native speakers. Spanish, also called Castillan, a Romance language which has its origin in Latin is official language of 22 countries. Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and is used as an official language by the European Union. Some of the biggest countries speaking Spanish are Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Chile and Ecuador.
The Sotho also acknowledged as Sesotho, Southern Sotho, or Southern Sesotho, comes under the Bantu language group and is spoken chiefly in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages, and in Lesotho, where it is the national language. It is an agglutinative language which uses frequent affixes and derivational and in flexional system to build complete words. There were almost four million first language Sotho speakers recorded in South Africa – approximately eight per cent of the population.
The Songhay or Songhai languages are a group of strongly related languages/dialects centered in the region of the middle stretches of the Niger River in the West African states of Mali, Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria. In particular, they are spoken in the cities of Timbuktu and Gao. The name Songhay is previously neither an ethnic nor a linguistic description, but a name for the ruling caste of the Songhay Empire. Songhay is a language spoken by 3 million people in the Republics of Mali, Niger, and Benin.
Somali is a part of the East Cushtic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. It has 10-16 million native speakers and possibly half a million second language speakers mainly in Somali, where it is an official language, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya. There are also noteworthy numbers of Somali speakers in Europe, North America and Yemen. The Somali language is spoken by ethnic Somalis in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Yemen and Kenya, and by the Somali diaspora.
The Sogdian language was an Eastern Iranian language spoken in the Central Asian area of Sogdiana, located in modern-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (capital: Samarkand; other chief cities: Panjakent, Fergana, Khojand and Bukhara). Sogdian is one of the most significant Middle Iranian languages, along with Bactrian, Khotanese Saka, Middle Persian and Parthian. It possesses a large fictional corpus. Sogdian was written in a multiplicity of scripts, all of them resultant from the Aramaic alphabet.
The Slavic languages, also called as Slavonic languages, a group of strongly related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, a large number of the Balkans, parts of Central Europe, and the northern part of Asia. From their native soil in east-central Europe (Poland or Ukraine), the Slavic languages have spread to the territory of the Balkans (Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian), central Europe (Czech and Slovak), Eastern Europe (Belarusian, Ukrainian, Russian), and the northern parts of Asia (Russian).
Sinhala also recognized as Sinhalese, is the mother language of the Sinhalese people, who build the largest national group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 16 million. Sinhala is also spoken, as a second language by other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, approximately about 3 million. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan division of the Indo-European languages. Sinhala is one of the official and national languages of Sri Lanka. Sinhala, along with Pali, played a foremost role in the development of Theravada Buddhist literature.
Flemish is West Germanic language which is strongly related to Dutch and generally regarded as the Belgian alternative of Dutch. Flemish is spoken by approx 5.5 million people in Belgium and by a few thousand people in France. It is spoken by about 55% of the population of Belgium. Although linguists choose the term ‘Netherlandic’, Dutch and Flemish remain common terms due to political and cultural meaning. Also, Flemish speech has similar wordings from French language.
Sindhi is an Indo-Aryan language with approximately 17 million speakers in the south-eastern region of Sind in Pakistan and about 2.8 million people in India. It is spoken by 53,410,910 people in Pakistan and some 5,820,485 people in India. It is the official language of the province of Sindh. Out of the country there are some 2.6 million Sindhis. Most Sindhi speakers are concentrated in the Sindh province and in Kutch, Gujarat, India where Sindhi is a confined language.
Siksika or Blackfoot, is an Algonquian language spoken by 8000 people in Southern Alberta and northern Montana. Numerous children are still learning Blackfoot, but the language is at present undergoing linguistic shift, with ‘Old Blackfoot’ being spoken by older generations and ‘New Blackfoot’ being spoken by younger ones. Like the other Algonquian languages, Blackfoot is typologically polysynthetic. There are 5,000 to 8,000 native speaker of Siksika language.
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