Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33621007-20191111041139/@comment-38303482-20191111234504

Withersoul 235 wrote: RobTheBobert wrote: Actually, the most spoken language in the world is Chinese. After that is English and Hindu, then Spanish, so Chinese first. I hate to be that guy but it's Chinese --> Spanish --> English --> Hindi --> Arabic --> Portuguese --> Bengali --> Russian etc. If you don't mind me, here's my (overly) detailed two cents for the most important languages:

1. Spanish.
 * 420 - 470 million speakers
 * Spain, Equatorial Guinea, Western Sahara, Morocco, Philippines, Spanish America (Way too many countries to list) + Secondary language in the US
 * Global influence

2. French.
 * 275 million speakers
 * France, Belgium (40% of populace), Monaco, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Canada, Guyane, Lebanon, Laos, Vietnam (revival ongoing), Cambodia, half of Africa
 * Global influence
 * Fast-growing af b/c Africa

3. Portuguese.
 * 280 million speakers
 * Portugal, Brazil, Uruguay (secondary supported language), Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Senegal and the Gambia (secondary), Cape Verde, São Tome en Principé, Timor-Leste, Macau SAR of China (semi-country, like Hongkong), Namibia (20% of populace apparently), Malaysia, 3 states of India, east coast of Sri Lanka
 * Global influence
 * According to scientific research, Portuguese is the fastest-growing European language of them all behind just English, but ahead even of Spanish and French
 * Most spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere

4. Russian.
 * 255 million speakers
 * Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Baltic States, Kazahkstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Israel (15% of populace is Russophone, media is translated into Russian)

5. German.
 * 230 million speakers
 * Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Belgium, Luxembourg, Namibia, Cameroon

6. Arabic.
 * 420 million speakers
 * Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Libanon, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Iraq, Oman, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Palestine, Israel, Philippines
 * I'm pretty sure Saher can speak Arabic

7. Chinese.
 * ~1 billion speakers
 * China, Taiwan, Singapore
 * Lots of people here speak Chinese so this sounds like it'll be handy

Now, if you excuse my overly long opinion, let's wrap up with final thoughts.

I could translate into Dutch, but the problem is that I don't think Dutch is relevant enough. I haven't seen any traces of it around here.

Malay, Italian, Tagalog, Hindi and Bengali may be good picks but I haven't come across a lot of people here who spoke them (tbf that applies for other languages in my big boi up there as well).

These are my two cents, my only concern might be that we could end up creating a bunch of alts that end up unused. Other than that I like the idea. Dang it, this always happens. Thanks!