These four groups account for more than a third of the 7, 000 or so tongues spoken around the world today.
And yet, by some estimates, Esperanto still has more speakers than six thousand of the languages spoken around the world today, including approximately a thousand native speakers (among them George Soros) who learned it as their first language.
Secretary Clinton has spoken to a number of world leaders in the last couple of days.
Since his election victory on Sunday, Mr. Hollande has spoken with a slew of world leaders, including President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, and prepared a string of international meetings that will start right after he is sworn in next week.
I've spoken at the Asia Society, World Affairs Council, Chamber of Commerce and Harvard Club.
Rebecca has spoken at the Asia Society, World Affairs Council, Chamber of Commerce and Harvard Club.
His boss there has spoken of him as a "world-class" intelligence officer and "something of a prodigy".
The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom.
People and leaders from across the region and the world and beyond have spoken in recent days against violence.
However, Borthwick revealed he had spoken to Johnson and the 2003 World Cup-winning captain had reminded him of the importance of focusing on the challenge ahead.
Obama has spoken of the bravery of Poles during World War II in past speeches.
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Rafsanjani has spoken of the day when the Islamic world would have nuclear weapons like those Israel now possesses.
About a third of the world's languages (spoken in all kinds of physical environments) rely on absolute directions for space.
The quietly spoken, likeable lad had become a world champion.
Only Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and English the world's most widely spoken second language have the sheer numbers of speakers to make it probable that they will survive for at least the next 300 years.
Since then, I have served as Global Patron of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, spoken at many forums, including the World Economic Forum in Davos, the United Nations, the World Health Assembly, and the African First Ladies Summit.
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To a man, I found every battle rapper I spoke to at World Domination II (and I must have spoken to at least 30) welcoming, open to conversation, and generally thoughtful.
Since then, though, he has spoken with relish about the role he once played on the world stage.
Audible is the world's largest producer and seller of digital spoken-word entertainment.
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And I have spoken, led conferences, and moderated panels at venues around the world.
And he has himself spoken, led conferences, and moderated panels at venues around the world.
The top two golfers in the world, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, have both spoken in favor of a ban.
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Mr Hayward has spoken frequently of his love of the offshore life and of touring the world in various BP jobs.
Ren Zhengfei, the founder of China's Huawei - the world's second-largest telecom equipment maker - has spoken to the media for the first time.
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The prime minister appears to have confused Sergeant Wilson, the calmly well-spoken deputy to Captain Mainwaring with Corporal Jones, the excitable butcher and World War One veteran.
Downing Street said Mr Cameron had spoken to Mr Kenny, Mr Rutte and Mr Monti whilst attending the World Economic Forum and also met German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the margins of the conference.
For a more recent, if similarly calamitous, manifestation of the power of chaos theory, consider how different the world would be today had not a devout, soft-spoken Saudi Arabian engineer inherited a significant fortune from his estranged father.
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Henson has spoken of his desire to represent his country in this autumn's Rugby World Cup and hopes to impress at Toulon and force his way into Gatland's plans.
President Bush has often spoken about the need for reform, including in oil rich countries in the Muslim world.
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