Paris may be considered the romance capital of the world, but it turns out that Spain is the most amorous nation.

Spanish people sent more love-related messages on Viber than any other region last year, ahead of France, Italy and Japan.

And this may be linked to the fact the language was recently found to be the happiest and most positive by mathematicians.

Spanish users of messaging app Viber sent the most love-related stickers during 2014, and a separate study found that Spanish is the most positive language. People in Spain use words such as ‘love’ and ‘laughter’ more than any other region. Spanish couple Javier Bardem (left) and Penelope Cruz pictured

Viber said its Spanish users sent the most love-related stickers on its messaging app during 2014 and the ‘kissing couple’ sticker topped the list globally.

In a separate study, a team of researchers, led by Dr Peter Dodds from the University of Vermont, built a database of billions of individual words from 10 of the most popular languages using online sources.

This included Google Books, Twitter, subtitles on films and TV shows, song lyrics and the New York Times in Spanish, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Indonesian, Korean, Russian and German.

In a separate study, a team of researchers studied 100,000 words across 10 languages (a yellow box indicates the row language is more positive than the column language, and a blue background shows the reverse) Spanish was the happiest (pictured) and Chinese was the most negatively skewed

Once all of these words were plotted, the researchers found that every language studied was inherently positive, and more words fell on the right of centre than left. Three examples are shown in Spanish, English and Chinese (top to bottom). The centre line is the average, yellow is positive and blue is negative

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From this, the scientists compiled a list of 10,000 most commonly used words in each language and labelled each as either positive and negative.

For example, the words ‘lying’ and ‘cried’ were plotted on the negative side, while ‘love’ and ‘laughter’ were positive words.

Once all of these words were plotted, the researchers found that every language studied was inherently positive, and more words fell on the right of centre than the left.

‘Using human evaluation of 100,000 words spread across 10 languages diverse in origin and culture, we present evidence of a deep imprint of human sociality in language,’ said the study.

‘The words of natural human language possess a universal positivity bias, the estimated emotional content of words is consistent between languages under translation, and this positivity bias is strongly independent of frequency of word use.'

To test these findings, the team applied their analysis to books including Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, (top) Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment (middle), and Alexander Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo (bottom). They mapped the emotional content and plotted peaks and troughs throughout each

And at the top of this list was Spanish, which had the highest skew towards positive sentiment. Chinese was at the opposite end of the scale.

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English was in third place.

To test these findings, the team later applied their analysis to books including Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, and Alexander Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo.

They mapped the emotional content and plotted peaks and troughs throughout each.

Language used in Crime and Punishment was predominantly positive but ended on a very low point.

The Count of Monte Cristo had the lowest dip at around the third-way mark but ended very positively.

Moby Dick had the highest peak a quarter of the way, sentiment fell at the half-way mark and the book ended on a low.

These peaks and troughs in positive and negative language related to high and low points in the narrative, going someway to prove Mr Dodds' research.

The findings were published in the journals Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Separate research from Twitter found that Sweden is the country most likely to tweet 'I love you.'

The site has created an interactive ‘World of Love’ map that reflects the volume of tweets mentioning this phrase in 100 different languages.

This volume was then related to the total population of each country to establish the ranking.

The UK came in at 51 out of the 173 countries that Twitter operates in, and the top five countries were Sweden, Slovenia, Israel, United Arab of Emirates and Norway.

Viber said its Spanish users sent the most love-related stickers on its messaging app during 2014, ahead of France, Itally, Japan and Brazil (picutred). The ‘kissing couple’ sticker topped the list globally