What are the most widely spoken languages in the world?

Question

I'll say:

Arabic

French

Chinese

Russian

Urdu/Hindi

English

Any more?

Answer 1

chinese

Answer 2

Chinese, I believe it has over 1 billion speakers.

Answer 3

http://www.photius.com/rankings/language...

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lan...

Answer 4

Klingon

Answer 5

You missed out Spanish. This is the 3rd most common language

Answer 6

English is the most widely spoken - as in the people who speak it are spread across the globe... followed by French ( i think!)

Chinese variants, eg Mandarin, have the most speakers - but they are focussed in China!

Answer 7

Mandrin chinese ,English.

Answer 8

Most widely spoken languages are English and French I believe (French in 44 countries). The most spoken are Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, English, Arabic.  

Answer 9

English

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Answer 10

This might seem silly, but actually it's Portugese - check it out.

Answer 11

English.  Everybody speaks and writes some English in any part of the world.

Answer 12

Enlish

French

Spanish

Arabic

Urdu/ Hindi

This is in order. And Spanish is 3rd widely spoken language around the world

Answer 13

well...i googled it and i found out that the first 5 are

1. Mandarin

2. English

3. Hindi

4. Spanish

5. Arabic

here's the link

it tells you the 30 most spoken languages in the world

http://www.krysstal.com/spoken.html

Answer 14

Definitely Chinese.

Then English as it's the "international" language.

Answer 15

Chinese mandarin is the most spoken language in the world, almost 2 billion speakers.

Not because it is spoken in many countries, but because there are a lot of people in thier country.

Answer 16

chinese by sheer population, English as the international language of business, and Spanish covers pretty much a whole continent of Latin America, plus French.

Answer 17

I would say you missed out Spanish. Spain, Colombia, Ecuador, America... Loads of countries speak it =)

Answer 18

English, Mandarin, cantonese, spanish followed by Arabic.

Answer 19

I believe French and English mostly

Answer 20

The language of love  , mama  and baba

Answer 21

Yes I Suppose Chinese Is Right But To Be Specific Its Mandarin, China Speaks Two Languages Mandarin And Cantonese

Answer 22

1) Chinese (1,000,000,000 mother tongue speakers)

2) English (350,000,000)

3)Spanish (250,000,000)

4)Hindi (2000,000,000)

5)Arabic (150,000,000)

6)Bengali (150,000,000)

7)Russian (150,000,000)

8)Portuguese (135,000,000)

9)Japanese (120,000,000)

10)German (100,000,000)

11)French (70,000,000).

Answer 23

i would also say french and English mostly

Answer 24

Think Spanish is the most widely used language worldwide.

Answer 25

Spanish, slang and gibberish! jk but ya probably spanish

Answer 26

English is the most universally spoken language in the world, within the Chinese language there are many sub languages so from as little as five hundred miles in China, the language goes through a great change

Answer 27

Spanish has to be one.  Almost a freakin' continent speaks it.