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| quote: | Originally posted by TranceSeeker
Most Commonly Spoken Languages
Rank Language Number of Speakers
1 Mandarin 1,000,000,000 +
2 English 508,000,000
3 Hindustani 497,000,000
4 Spanish 392,000,000
5 Russian 277,000,000
5 Arabic 246,000,000
7 Bengali 211,000,000
8 Portuguese 191,000,000
9 Malay-Indonesian 159,000,000
10 French 129,000,000
WTF is mandarin??
I thought English was the most spoken |
Is this most spoken as a first language?
If you include people who speak it as a second or third language (such as yourself?) then English is probably top. I don't think I've ever met anyone who speaks Mandarin as a second language, yet people all over the world speak English as a second language.
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