Those numbers have to be off: According to wikipedia [0]: English 379.0 million native speakers, 1.132 billion total French 76.8 million native speakers, 279.

Those numbers have to be off: According to wikipedia [0]: English 379.0 million native speakers, 1.132 billion total French 76.8 million native speakers, 279.8 million total It seems you might have mixed the French native speakers with a (high estimate of) the English total speakers. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...