Compare:
| English | Hindi | Japanese | Russian | ||
| Language Family and Writing System | |||||
| Writing System | Latin | Devangari | Japanese (four Scripts) | Cyrillic | |
| Script(s) Used | English | (hind ) | (nihongo) | (russkij Jazyk) | |
| Family | Indo-european | Indo-european | Japonic | Indo-european | |
| Subgroup | Germanic | Indo-aryan | Japanese | Balto-slavic | |
| 3 Letter Code | Eng | Hin | Jpn | Rus | |
| 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 | |
| Sequence | Svo | Sov | Sov | Svo | |
| Tonal | No | No | No | No | |
| Agglutinative language | No | No | Yes | No | |
| Geographic Distribution | |||||
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| Official Language of United Nations | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
| 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 | |
| No. of Countries Spoken In | 84 |
6 |
4 |
22 |
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Abkhazia
Antigua And Barbuda