French or English

danial
By danial

What is the world's most widely spoken languages French or English?

By LadyJane• 18 Jun 2009 21:05
Rating: 5/5
LadyJane

If you know that China has the world's largest population, you would know that Chinese would have to rank number 1 among spoken languages. It makes sense that Spanish ranks 2nd because most of the populations in Central America and South America speak Spanish, of course so does the population of Spain. Additionally, there are a number of Spanish-speaking people in the United States. English only ranks third because it is widely spoken, and this data source took into consideration 2nd languages as well.

Chinese* (937,132,000)

Spanish (332,000,000)

English (322,000,000)

Bengali (189,000,000)

Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)

Arabic* (174,950,000)

Portuguese (170,000,000)

Russian (170,000,000)

Japanese (125,000,000)

German (98,000,000)

French* (79,572,000)

Source:

http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm

(This website has various rankings of spoken languages based on different criteria.)

By fhranzis067• 18 Jun 2009 20:05
Rating: 4/5
fhranzis067

English.. but i prefer french.. :)

By jailbroken114• 18 Jun 2009 19:54
Rating: 4/5
jailbroken114

English......... i think

By malih55• 18 Jun 2009 19:10
malih55

should be arabic,

By MrsJacko• 18 Jun 2009 18:53
Rating: 5/5
MrsJacko

Actually its mandarin chinese, Here are the top 5

1. Mandarin Chinese - 882 million people

2. Spanish - 325 million people

3. English - 312-380 million people

4. Arabic - 206-422 million people

5. Hindi - 181 million people

French is nowhere in the top 10

By anonymous• 18 Jun 2009 18:48
Rating: 5/5
anonymous

mr daniel or danial the most spoken lunguage is arabic

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