A global organization specialized in language statistics and documentation recently published an index ranking the world’s most widely spoken living languages. Unsurprisingly, Arabic secured fifth place with 335 million speakers, trailing behind English (1.49 billion), Mandarin Chinese (1.18 billion), Hindi (611 million), and Spanish (561 million). What was really surprising, however, was that the index ... The post Why are we ashamed of the Egyptian dialect? appeared first on Egypt Independent .
