which language is spoken by most people in the world?

Answer 1

FRENCH :-)

Between 230 and 300 million individuals internationally have knowledge of the French language.

- 113 million Francophones who speak French as a native or adopted language fluently and use it on a regular basis.

- 61 million "occasional" Francophones who live in a francophone country but do not speak French regularly, due to limited knowledge.

- 100-110 million students of all ages who do not live in a
francophone country, but have learned or are learning French in order to communicate with Francophones.

This would make a total of approximately 280 million people worldwide with the ability of communicating using the French language.

French (with local variants) is an official language in the following countries of the world:

Belgium (Note: Walloon is a dialect of the Langue d'Oïl which differs signifcantly from Belgian French)
Benin
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Canada, especially Quebec (see Quebecois French)
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Republic of the Congo
Cote d'Ivoire
Djibouti
France (including Guadeloupe and Martinique)
Gabon
Guinea
Haiti
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Mali
Monaco
Niger
Rwanda
Senegal
Seychelles
Switzerland (Suisse Romande)
Togo
Vanuatu
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)

French is also spoken in the following countries (although it's not an official language):

Algeria
Egypt
India (Pondichery)
Italy (Val d'Aoste)
Laos
Lebanon
Mauritania
Morocco
Tunisia
Vietnam

For the following countries, a percentage of French-speaking
inhabitants is known or estimated:

Belgium: 32%
Canada: 23.2%
France: 100%
Guadeloupe: 99%
Switzerland: 19.2%

Answer 2

Close to a billion people speak the national language of China (aka mandarin) as a first or second language,

Answer 3

There is a higher number of people in the world who speak Chinese.

More countries speak Spanish (have it as their official language).

And English is considered the most "common" or "universal" language.

Answer 4

Depending on your point of view, it's either Mandarin or English.

More people speak Mandarin as their native language.

Considering how common English is as a second language, more people can speak English (to some extent anyway) than any other single language.

Answer 5

By their first language it would be Chinese. If you include second languages though it is probably English. Although on a day to day basis it is probably still Chinese mandarin.

Answer 6

Mandarin Chinese 1 billion+

Answer 7

1. Mandarin Chinese
Number of speakers: 1 billion+

Answer 8

English and Spanish

Answer 9

Mandarin Chinese. About 900 million.

Answer 10

Engilish