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The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population: (number of native speakers in parentheses) Chinese* (937,132,000) Spanish (332,000,000) English (322,000,000) Bengali (189,000,000) Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000) Arabic* (174,950,000) Portuguese (170,000,000) Russian (170,000,000) Japanese (125,000,000) German (98,000,000) French* (79,572,000 The following list is from Dr. Bernard Comrie’s article for the Encarta Encyclopedia (1998): (number of native speakers in parentheses) Mandarin Chinese (836 million) Hindi (333 million) Spanish (332 million) English (322 million) Bengali (189 million) Arabic (186 million) Russian (170 million) Portuguese (170 million) Japanese (125 million) German (98 million) French (72 million) http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
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Chinese Mandarin
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English??
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I heard it was Japanese, then Spanish, and English... but idk if that's correct, sorries.
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It's Mandarin Chinese with 1,051 million speakers in China, Malaysia, Taiwan. Second place is English with 510 million speakers from USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand. Third is Hindi with 490 million people from North and Central India. Fourth is Spanish with 425 million, in the the Americas, Spain and other places. Fifth is Arabic with 255 million in Arabic countries.
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Sarcasmish...:)
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