which is the most widely spoken language on this planet??

Answer 1

ENGLISH- The language of progress, prosperity, education and technology.
The English language is the official language of the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Belize, Malta, the Phillipines, South Africa, Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanzania, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and several of the grenadine islands in the Caribbean, as well as one of the official languages of Israel, India, Malaysia and Tonga. Other nations such as Sweden, Norway and Denmark have made English a compulsory subject for all school children. And nations of Asia and Africa are learning that their languages are unfit for use in a high-tech world, where picture writing, and other alphabets not romanized are required.

The English language provides the exactitude of meaning with a 700,000 word vocabulary, supremely suited for the high technology world of the 21st century. There are many English words that cannot even be translated in other languages because of the inadequately developed vocabulary of those languages. For instance, the chauvinistic Japanese, thought, that when hi tech came to be, that they could simply absorb English words into Japanese with only slight changes in pronounciation (there is no L sound in Japanese so they substitute another sound for L when they absorb English words into the Japanese language), and after adding over 1000 English words, they found they could not successfully make Japanese a high tech language. The result: everywhere in Japan, people are trying to learn English – the demand for English teachers is far above the availability and the Japanese refuse to study English with a Japanese teacher.

The same problem confronts all the other languages of Asia and Africa where the languages spoken have no vocabulary to fit into the 21st century.

97% of all the technology books being written and published now are in English. All the people who are into modern technology and science who are bilingual have no time to spend translating works into their native languages as their careers encompass their time. It’s all but over for the other world languages. Knowing fluent English today and for the future, means success, employment, financial security and prosperity. Not knowing English will mean poverty, ignorance and unemployment.
Because the question asks for WIDELY SPOKEN language, it must be english because chinese is not spoken much outside of china. Furthermore there are more than 1 billion english speakers in this world.

Answer 2

If you count only the number of native speakers Mandarin Chinese is the most used, however, when you count second, third, fourth, fifth, (etc) languages English is currently the most widely spoken language on earth.

Answer 3

I think there are more countries that speak Spanish, but many countries teach English as a second language. I would have to guess that English is the most widely spoken language.

Answer 4

1. Mandarin
Number of speakers: 1 billion+

Surprise, surprise, the most widely spoken language on the planet is based in the most populated country on the planet. Beating second-place English by a 2 to 1 ratio, but don't let that lull you into thinking that Mandarin is easy to learn. Speaking Mandarin can be really tough, because each word can be pronounced in four ways (or "tones"), and a beginner will invariably have trouble distinguishig one tone from another. But if over a billion people could do it, so could you. Try saying hello!

To say "hello" in Mandarin, say "Ni hao" (Nee HaOW). ("Hao" is pronounced as one syllable, but the tone requires that you let your voice drop midway, and then raise it again at the end.)

"Chinese" is incorrect, as Mandarin, Cantonese, and numerous tribal languages and local dialects are spoken in China.

Answer 5

English.

Answer 6

It depends what you mean by "widely spoken". If you mean numerically, it is Chinese; if you mean widely-spoken in the sense of spoken in most different locations as a first language, it is English or Spanish.

Answer 7

What do you mean by widely? Are we talking just mother tongue, or people who speak fluently?

In terms of population Mandarin Chinese would have to be up there with so many people speaking it as their native tongue. Even more if you include all other forms of Chinese. English is pretty close and so many people learn it as a second language and speak it fluently and it is widely used. Spanish also has loads of people speaking it as a first and second language and spreads into lots of countries. I believe Hindi and Arabic are also pretty widely spoken.

Answer 8

Let's be careful. Chinese is not one language but several quite different ones. One of these, Mandarin Chinese, spoken mostly in Northern China but also in other places, is presumably the number one language in terms of native speakers, and English probably in terms of speakers whether native or nonnative.

Answer 9

hmmm let's give a wide answer to this wide question...

most spoken as a second language: English
most spoken as native/official language: Chinese *mandarim or cantonese dialects
most spoken as a native/official language in the highest number of different countries: Spanish


And also, if you haven't narrowed the question to this planet, I would be in doubt between Venusian and Kryptonian ;)

Answer 10

English.