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Many Austronesian languages have very few speakers, but the major Austronesian languages are spoken by tens of millions of people and one Austronesian language, Malay, is spoken by 250 million people, making it the 8th most spoken language in the world.

The forms of spoken English, however, vary considerably more than in most other areas of the world where English is spoken, citation so a uniform concept of British English is more difficult to apply to the spoken language.

The more commonly spoken languages dominate the less commonly spoken languages, so the less commonly spoken languages eventually disappear from populations.

Thus Vietnamese is the most spoken language of the Austroasiatic family, being spoken by three times more people than the second most spoken language of the family, Khmer.

It has been spoken and shall be spoken ever.

Harry, who has long spoken of his mental health battles and been an advocate for others to do so, and Mr Markle have never met in person though have spoken over telephone.

Five years later, the Indian masses have spoken again - and they've spoken louder than they have in a while.

Mr Gove told BBC Radio 4’s : “I haven’t spoken to Ann and I don’t know anyone who’s spoken to Ann for months now.

At critical moments, when our people have longed for a collective sense of belonging, they have spoken to us and they have spoken for us.

The people have spoken and they’ve spoken very loudly.

A widely accepted practice is to follow whichever spoken form is judged better: the boss’s shoes, Mrs Jones’ hat (or Mrs Jones’s hat, if that spoken form is preferred).

Characters each spoke a different Prakrit based on their role and background; for example, Dramili was the language of "forest-dwellers", Sauraseni was spoken by "the heroine and her female friends", and Avanti was spoken by "cheats and rogues".

Even when the literary language is spoken, however, it is normally only spoken in its pure form when reading a prepared text out loud.

Geographic distribution Although Japanese is spoken almost exclusively in Japan, it has been spoken outside.

Hausa is the most widely spoken of the 3 main languages spoken in Nigeria itself (Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba) but unlike the Yorubas and Igbos, the Hausas tend not to travel far outside Nigeria itself.

His work, though iconoclastic, remained well within the historical spectrum of poetry as it moved from a spoken tradition to the printed word and now back to the spoken word again (Wendt 1996, 112).

However, in both countries French is not spoken by almost any of the general population or migrant workers, but spoken by a small minority of those who invest in Francophone countries or have other financial or family ties.

However, it has discarded some grammatical constructions and vocabulary that no longer have any counterpart in the spoken varieties, and has adopted certain new constructions and vocabulary from the spoken varieties.

If Arabic is considered a single language, it is perhaps spoken by as many as 422 million speakers (native and non-native) in the Arab world, citation making it one of the six most-spoken languages in the world.

In and around Rennes, Gallo was traditionally spoken as a local language, but Breton has always been spoken by regional migrants coming from the western part of the region.