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

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.