English comes after Mandarin and Spanish according to most sources, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers#Top_languag

English comes after Mandarin and Spanish according to most sources, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers#Top_languages_by_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of... Edit: ugh sorry, I realize you wrote spoken languages (which English would be in the top at, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...), not native/first language/by population. Ignore me!