Oi is hi in Portuguese, which is the 10th most-spoken language.

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Somali is a close second to English as the most-spoken first language in Moss Side schools.

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They found work through a private agency after taking an intensive course in Dutch, the language most commonly spoken in the north of Belgium.

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Spanish is by far the most popular non-English language spoken at home with roughly 34 million speakers nationwide.

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Twenty native speakers of Yucatec, Mexico's most widely spoken Mayan tongue, met last Thursday to help bring the language to Google, Mozilla and Wikimedia projects.

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For most of them, it was the first time they had heard their language spoken by another human being.

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Malay remains the national language (there are four official languages), but it is not spoken by most Chinese and is largely seen as a relic of Singapore's past union with Malaysia.

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