Looking further at the evidence of their creation, one may wonder if there is any significance to the choice of 8 languages out of the many there are to choose from. The only thing that stands out is that Hebrew was chosen even before French, Italian, Greek or German which respectively have 124, 63, 12, and 120 million speakers. It was even chosen before Zulu, Swedish or Afrikaans which claims 8, 9 and 10 million speakers:

In millions of speakers in the world 1,000+

English 463
Hindi 400
Spanish 371
Russian& 291
Arabic 214
Swahili 47
Hebrew 4


What about Mandarin Chinese? There are freaking a billion people that speak it.