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> [...] Spanish (second most spoken language in the world, after Chinese), German or French. Spanish isn't the second most spoken language in the world. http

• mbreese 16y ago
  I'm not saying that I disagree (because I do think that Hindi is probably number 2), but that list is over 10 years old and is just an estimation. More telling is that from that same estimation, English is the number of secondary speakers of languages. French was number one, followed closely by English. I'm guessing that by now English has pulled ahead.
• sorbus 16y ago
  Spanish had the second largest number[1] of native and secondary speakers in 1999[2] (417 million) behind Mandarin with 1052 million. It's also still the second most spoken language when counting only native speakers. However, English is currently the second most spoken language, with 900 million native and secondary speakers. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_... [2] The numbers the parent points to are estimates from 1997.