There are several common languages in the world.

Six languages refer to the common languages of the United Nations: Chinese, English, French, Russian, Arabic and Spanish.

1, Chinese

Chinese is the traditional language of the Han nationality, the common language of China and one of the international languages. It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and is related to Tibetan, Zhuang, Dai, Dong, Li, Yi, Miao and Yao languages.

Chinese is an analytical language with three to fifteen tones. Chinese writing system is a kind of linguistic sign, which has both ideographic and phonetic functions. Chinese includes spoken and written language. The ancient written language is called classical Chinese, and the modern written language is called vernacular Chinese, which is based on modern standard language.

2. English

English is a language of Indo-European Germanic language family, which consists of 26 letters. English letters originated from Latin letters, which originated from Greek letters, which evolved from Phoenician letters. English is the official language designated internationally (as the mother tongue) and the most widely used language in the world.

English contains about 490,000 words, plus about 300,000 technical terms. It is the language with the largest vocabulary and the official language of the European Union, many international organizations and Commonwealth countries. It has the third largest number of native speakers in the world, second only to Chinese and Spanish.

3. French

French is an independent language, belonging to the Romance family of Indo-European languages in Europe. Romance includes central Romance (French, Italian, Sardinian dialect, Catalan, etc.). ), western romance (Spanish, Portuguese, etc. ) and oriental romance (Romania, etc. ).

French is one of the most widely used independent languages of Roman after Spanish.

4. Russian

Russian (Russian: русскийязык) is one of the official languages of the United Nations, the official language of the Russian Federation, and the fourth largest language in the world in terms of native speakers and second language users. The number of people who use Russian accounts for 5.7% of the world population. Russian belongs to the East Slavic branch of the Slavic family of Indo-European languages.

5. Arabic

Arabic (Arabic:), the language of Arabs, belongs to Semitic language family, and Arabic speakers account for 6% of the world's population. The Arabic alphabet is written from right to left, mainly used in West Asia and North Africa, and is now the official language of 18 Arab countries and 4 international organizations.

More than 260 million people speak Arabic as their mother tongue. The total number of Arabic speakers in the world has exceeded 440 million. There are many Arabic dialects with great differences.

6. Spanish

Spanish (Spanish: espa? Ol) is short for Spanish and belongs to Indo-European-Roman-West Roman branch. According to the number of speakers of the first language, about 437 million people use it as their mother tongue, making it the second largest language in the world, second only to Chinese. The number of people who use Spanish accounts for 4.84% of the world population, and the total number of users of the first language and the second language is nearly 570 million.