Originally Posted by
mike2200
Most Widely Spoken Languages in the World (from Google)
Chinese tops the list of most popular world languages, with over one billion speakers. English trails in third place, with 335 million speakers. This data represents first-language speakers.
Language1 Approx. number
of speakers
1. Chinese 1,197,000,000
2. Spanish 414,000,000
3. English 335,000,000
4. Hindi 260,000,000
5. Arabic. 237,000,000
6. Portuguese 203,000,000
7. Bengali 193,000,000
8. Russian 167,000,000
9. Japanese 122,000,000
10. Javanese 84,300,000
This is clearly wrong as regards English having only 335m speakers. That's less than two population of the US and the UK, let alone the other 58 English speaking countries.