which is the most spoken language in the world?

Answer 1

The below are based on number of speakers
1. Chinese (937,132,000)
2. Spanish (332,000,000)
3. English (322,000,000)
4. Bengali (189,000,000)
5. Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
6. Arabic (174,950,000)
7. Portuguese (170,000,000)
8. Russian (170,000,000)
9. Japanese (125,000,000)
10. German (98,000,000)
11. French (79,572,000)

Answer 2

I agree with "Lentino". For this kind of question, you cannot take population as a sole factor. Yes, China may be the most populated country in the world, but outside of China, not too many people speak Chinese. English is the universal language, spoken in nearly every country. They teach it in China and in Japan as basic requirements, because English is the world's business language. Therefore, my answer is English.

Answer 3

English

Answer 4

English

Answer 5

English.
A recent report from British Council reveals that, the non-native English speakers outnumber native English speakers by a ratio of 3 to 1. This shows that the communication among nns-nns is more frequent than nns-ns. So we could not take the population size as a parameter to define the most spoken language. In fact, English is the most universal language learnt by world population. Hence, ns-ns, nns-ns and nns-nns communications are mostly carried out in English.

Answer 6

I guess it's Chinese

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0775272.html#A0774735

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


http://anthro.palomar.edu/language/language_1.htm
1. Mandarin Chinese 874,000,000 16
2. Hindi (India) 366,000,000 17
3. English 341,000,000 104
4. Spanish 322-358,000,000 43
5. Bengali (India and Bangladesh) 207,000,000 9
6. Portuguese 176,000,000 33
7. Russian 167,000,000 30
8. Japanese 125,000,000 26
9. German (standard) 100,000,000 40
10. Korean 78,000,000 31
11. French 77,000,000 53
12. Wu Chinese 77,000,000 1
13. Javanese 75,000,000 4
14. Yue Chinese 71,000,000 20
15. Telegu (India) 69,000,000 7

Answer 7

French is the worlds most spoken language... Next on the list is English...

Answer 8

The most spoken language is chinese - just look how many of them there are.

The second most spoken language and the most widely spoken language by far is then English.

3rd is Spanish

Answer 9

chinese Mandarin has about 2 billion community audio equipment it truly is the most contained in the international. English is the most huge unfold language from Britain to the U. S. to Australia. Spanish is likewise on par with English because the language with the 2d best community inhabitants contained in the international.

Answer 10

From my readings, and I'm sorry I don't remember where I read it, the most spoken first language is Chinese, the most spoken language in general (first, second, third ..etc) is English.

Answer 11

FOR ME ITS ENGLISH ...

IF all the rest of the world went to china and they didn't speak Chinese I think the first words they would say are

'' do you speak English?''

and that's the same line every tourist says when he coz to a foreign country and he don't know the home language.