What languages are spoken the most worldwide?

Question

For instance the Spanish language came to the American Continents from Spain....so Mexico, Central and South America (with the exception of Brazil) speak Spanish. English originates in England but it is spoken in the USA and in Canada.

and in what order?

Answer 1

According to Dr. Bernard Comrie the top 11 are:
1) Mandarin Chinese= 836 million
2) Hindi= 333 million
3) Spanish= 332 million
4) English= 322 million
5) Bengali= 189 million
6) Arabic= 186 million
7) Russion= 170 million
8) Portugese= 170 million
9) Japanese= 125 million
10) German= 98 million
11) French= 72 million

Answer 2

The language spoken by the most people is Mandarin Chinese, but they are mainly in china (5 billion people live there!) English however is the most widely spoke language. This is partially thanks to imperialism and the US's economic hold on most of the world. Spanish of course is also a widely spoken language.

Answer 3

English and Spanish.

Answer 4

Mandarin ( Chinese) is the number one most widely spoken language in world, follow by English, Hindustani, Spanish and Russian.

Answer 5

Body language

Answer 6

1.Chinese
2.English
3. Hindi
4. Spanish
5. Arabic
6. Russian
7. Portuguese
8. Bengali
9. Malay, Indonesian
10. French

they may be a little off, depending on how many now speak them after this was made. but i hope this helps.

Answer 7

English. It is also the universal language in many things, like air traffic control.

Answer 8

well Englis is an international language, and wherever you go even the old folks would speak a little of it even they don't go school,,they learn by hearing and learning,,if you go to some ulu country,,they'll even understand you when you speaks english with some signs language,,The problem is that they don't speaks proper or good english

Answer 9

english language

Answer 10

English ofcourse