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Mandarin, China’s official tongue, is also the top language worldwide for business other than English。 Mandarin, spoken by 845 million people, scored highest in a ranking of languages, excluding English, based on business usefulness. The ranking scored languages according to the number of speakers, number of countries where the language is official, along with those nations’ populations, financial power, educational and literacy rates, and related measures。 French, spoken by 68 million people worldwide and the official language of 27 countries, was ranked second。 Mandarin is unlikely to supplant English soon as the primary language of business, said Leigh Hafrey, a senior lecturer in communications and ethics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management。 “In much the same way that the dollar remains the preferred currency, English will remain the preferred language for the foreseeable future,” Hafrey said in a telephone interview。 Mandarin speakers can gain an advantage in doing business in China, he said。 据彭博社31日报道，除了英语，中国官方语言汉语也是全球商务使用最为广泛的语言。 讲汉语的人有8.45亿。从商务实用性来看，除英语外，汉语排名最靠前。此次语言评比是根据某种语言的使用人数，把它作为官方语国家的数量、以及这些国家的人口、财力、教育与识字率等相关标准完成的。 | 
