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English

Number of native speakers:

Approximately 340 - 380 million

Widely spoken in:

Australia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, and several other countries

Language family:

Indo-European > Germanic > West-Germanic > Anglo-Frisian > Anglic

Writing system:

Latin alphabet

Language codes:

ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng

Chinese

Number of native speakers:

Approximately 1.2 - 1.3 billion

Widely spoken in:

Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Chinese communities in other regions

Language family:

Sino-Tibetan

Writing system:

Chinese characters

Language codes:

ISO 639-1: zh
ISO 639-2: chi (B), zho (T)

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