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phil said:
ChichiriMuyo said:
For those who were curious about languages spoken around the world...

Most Commonly Spoken Languages
Rank Language Number of Speakers
1 Chinese (Mandarin) 1,000,000,000 +
2 English 508,000,000
3 Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) 497,000,000
4 Spanish 392,000,000
5 Russian 277,000,000
6 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

Source: University of Washington
Is that native speakers only or does it include second language?

 


 yeah this is just native speaker but overall there are 1.8 billion people world wide  can speak some english and by 2050 over 3 billion will speak english