Compare English vs Hindi vs Japanese vs Russian World Languages

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Language Family and Writing System
Writing System	Latin	Devangari	Japanese (four Scripts)	Cyrillic
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Script(s) Used	English	(hind )	(nihongo)	(russkij Jazyk)
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Family	Indo-european	Indo-european	Japonic	Indo-european
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Subgroup	Germanic	Indo-aryan	Japanese	Balto-slavic
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3 Letter Code	Eng	Hin	Jpn	Rus
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Number of Speakers
Number of Native speakers (millions)	322 million	182 million	125 million	170 million
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Native Speakers as % of World	7 %	3.9 %	2.7 %	4 %
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Total Number of Speakers (millions)	1500 million	490 million	130 million	250 million
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Total Speakers as % of World	19.7 %	6.4 %	1.7 %	3.3 %
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Language Systems
Noun declensions	None	Two Cases	None	Six Cases
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Sequence	Svo	Sov	Sov	Svo
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Tonal	No	No	No	No
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Agglutinative language	No	No	Yes	No
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Geographic Distribution
Official language in	Abkhazia Antigua And Barbuda Australia Bahamas Barbados Belarus Belize Botswana Cameroon Canada Dominica Federated States Of Micronesia Fiji Ghana Grenada Guyana India Ireland Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kyrgyzstan Lesotho Liberia Malawi Malta Marshall Islands Mauritius Namibia Nauru New Zealand Nigeria Pakistan Palau Papua New Guinea Philippines Russia Rwanda South Ossetia Tajikistan The Gambia Transnistria United Kingdom United States	Abkhazia Antigua And Barbuda Australia Bahamas Barbados Belarus Belize Botswana Cameroon Canada Dominica Federated States Of Micronesia Fiji Ghana Grenada Guyana India Ireland Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kyrgyzstan Lesotho Liberia Malawi Malta Marshall Islands Mauritius Namibia Nauru New Zealand Nigeria Pakistan Palau Papua New Guinea Philippines Russia Rwanda South Ossetia Tajikistan The Gambia Transnistria United Kingdom United States	Abkhazia Antigua And Barbuda Australia Bahamas Barbados Belarus Belize Botswana Cameroon Canada Dominica Federated States Of Micronesia Fiji Ghana Grenada Guyana India Ireland Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kyrgyzstan Lesotho Liberia Malawi Malta Marshall Islands Mauritius Namibia Nauru New Zealand Nigeria Pakistan Palau Papua New Guinea Philippines Russia Rwanda South Ossetia Tajikistan The Gambia Transnistria United Kingdom United States	Abkhazia Antigua And Barbuda Australia Bahamas Barbados Belarus Belize Botswana Cameroon Canada Dominica Federated States Of Micronesia Fiji Ghana Grenada Guyana India Ireland Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kyrgyzstan Lesotho Liberia Malawi Malta Marshall Islands Mauritius Namibia Nauru New Zealand Nigeria Pakistan Palau Papua New Guinea Philippines Russia Rwanda South Ossetia Tajikistan The Gambia Transnistria United Kingdom United States
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Official Language of United Nations	Yes	No	No	Yes
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Countries Spoken In	Antigua And Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Federated States Of Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts And Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Ingapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad And Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe, American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos, (keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guam, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Isle Of Man, Jersey, Montserrat, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto Rico, Saint Helena, Ascension And Tristan Da Cunha, Sint Maarten, Somaliland, Tokelau, Turks And Caicos Islands, U.s. Virgin Islands	India, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, United States, Canada, Nepal	Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Palau	Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, Norway, United States, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, China, Ukraine, Estonia, Georgia, Israel, Latvia, Mongolia
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No. of Countries Spoken In	84	6	4	22
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