Here you go idiots:
Most Widely Spoken Languages
in the World
Language Approx. number
of speakers
1. Chinese (Mandarin) 1,075,000,000
2. English 514,000,000
3. Hindustani1 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
(English is not even included above)
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0775272.html
Here's another one:
The Most Common Languages in the World
Language Approximate
number Of
NATIVE Speakers
(in the year 2000) COUNTRIES WITH
SUBSTANTIAL
NUMBERS OF
NATIVE SPEAKERS
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
http://anthro.palomar.edu/language/language_1.htm
and another....
Language Users (millions)
English 287.5
Chinese 102.6
Japanese 92.7
Spanish 85.6
German 52.9
Korean 29.9
French 28.0
Portuguese 25.7
Italian 24.3
Russian 18.5
Malay 13.6
Dutch 13.5
Arabic 10.5
Polish 9.5
Swedish 7.9
Turkish 5.8
Thai 4.9
Czech 4.2
Hebrew 3.8
Danish 3.5
Persian 3.4
Catalan 2.9
Norwegian 2.9
Finnish 2.8
Greek 2.7
Bulgarian 2.4
Romanian 2.4
Vietnamese 2.2
Hungarian 1.7
Slovak 1.2
Croatian 1.0
Ukrainian 0.9
Slovenian 0.8
Icelandic 0.2
Total number of users with European languages (excluding English): 276 million
Total number of users with Asian languages (excluding English): 241 million
by the way people learn English as a second language and because its easy as hell so those who speak it its usually a second third fourth or fifth language that people learn, NOT native speakers its just too easy a language.
So yea like I said again this isnt the special olympics, but some of you in here are clearly retarded. Burn!