Guest guest Posted December 21, 2003 Report Share Posted December 21, 2003 Sri Ramakrishna Charanam Saranam; Sri Sri Ma Pranams, Here is the list of 15 most populous world languages of the present world. It would be interesting if someone could collect data/list of Ramakrishna /Sarada /Vivekananda /Vedanta publications including Gita available in these fifteen most populous languages. Singapore Centre has published a small booklet on the life of Sri Ramakrishna in Chinese Mandarin a few years ago. The pictoral biography of Swami Vivekananda (original publication of Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata) is also available in Mandarin, which was also published by Singapore Centre. With Pranams, Prakash S. No Name of Language Country of Origin Population using as their 1st Language Population using as 1st & 2nd language 1 Chinese Mandarin China 874,000,000 1,052,000,000 2 Hindi India 366,666,666 487,000,000 3 Spanish Spain 358,000,000 417,000,000 4 English England 341,000,000 508,000,000 5 Bengali India 207,000,000 211,000,000 6 Portuguese Portugal 176,000,000 191,000,000 7 Russian Russia 167,000,000 277,000,000 8 Japanese Japan 125,000,000 126,000,000 9 German Germany 100,000,000 128,000,000 10 French France 77,000,000 128,000,000 11 Telugu India 69,666,000 75,000,000 12 Tamil India 66,000,000 74,000,000 13 Urdu India 60,290,000 104,000,000 14 Korean Korea 56,000,000 78,000,000 15 Italian Italy 55,000,000 62,000,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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