The term Inka means ruler or lord in Quechua and was used to refer to the ruling class or the ruling family. The Spanish adopted the term (transliterated as Inca in Spanish) as an ethnic term referring to all subjects of the empire rather than simply the ruling class.
The world's largest spoken language is Chinese (Mandarin). It is followed by English, Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) and Spanish in the fourth place. The world's largest spoken language is Chinese (Mandarin). It is followed by English, Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) and Spanish in the fourth place.
There is a list of the world's languages, called Ethnologue (Grimes 1996). There are 6,500 living languages listed. Of these, 6,000 have registered population figures. 52% of the 6,000 languages are spoken by less than 10,000 people, and 28% are spoken by less than 1,000 people. 83% of them are limited to single countries. The ten largest languages in the world are the first languages for nearly half of the world's population. Here is a list of the top 10 languages in February 1999 according to Ethnologue : The figures refer to the number of people who have the language as their first language.