2006-06-30 15:41:08 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
english
2006-06-30 15:44:04 · answer #1 · answered by whatever21 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English
2006-06-30 18:45:54 · answer #2 · answered by Cutiepye 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are the top Ten:
Language = Number of speakers
1. Chinese (Mandarin)= 1,075,000,000
2. English =514,000,000
3. Hindustani = 496,000,000
4. Spanish = 425,000,000
5. Russian = 275,000,000
6. Arabic = 256,000,000
7. Bengali = 215,000,000
8. Portuguese =194,000,000
9. Malay-Indonesian =176,000,000
10. French =129,000,000
2006-06-30 16:06:02 · answer #3 · answered by dd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mandarin Chinese is spoken by 1120 million people in the countries of Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, S. Africa, Taiwan, and Thailand.
English is second, followed by Spanish then Arabic.
2006-06-30 15:45:23 · answer #4 · answered by shoppingontherun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its English, but only because there are more countries that have English as their first or second language.......in pure numbers of people, its Chinese. But basically only one or two countries really speak it...its just that there are one heck of a lot of people in China..lol.
I think the answer your looking for is English, its used and understood in many more countries than any other language on the planet.
2006-07-07 13:39:07 · answer #5 · answered by x_this_other_eden_x 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DD is right about Mandarin if you mean as a mother tongue. The most spoken foreign/mother tongue language is English.
Top internet language is English and number two is German.
2006-06-30 16:15:32 · answer #6 · answered by telefonquestion 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apart from English, Mandarin should rank 2nd
2006-06-30 15:45:22 · answer #7 · answered by froggy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say Mandarin Chinese for native indiginous speakers. Ni Hao, all. Mang ma?
But for sheer communications, I would have to propose mathematics as a wolrd language now, all our trans-global web is based on binary/machine codes and more complex languages... say C, C++, etc etc. based on math...Which sucks because I hate math. hehe.
2006-06-30 17:09:09 · answer #8 · answered by shugenja6 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most spoken language is love...
2006-06-30 15:44:22 · answer #9 · answered by Kota 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would have to say bad language almost everyone uses it at some time in their lives
and by the way American is not a language
2006-07-07 08:17:34 · answer #10 · answered by gwaz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋