What is the most used language in the world?

Question

what is the most common language spoken in he world?

Answer 1

English, spanish and french

Answer 2

1. Mandarin Chinese

2. English

3. Hindi

4. Spanish

thats all i know. i might have got 3 and 4 mixed up.

Answer 3

Mandarin Chinese, with 873,000,000 native speakers. But the most world-wide spoken language would probably have to be English.

Answer 4

It's English. Because english is the international business language.  

Answer 5

As a fact, Mandarin Chinese has the most speakers.

BUT, English is most widely recognised and spoken as it is THE global language :)

Answer 6

yasmine's list is old. it is from 1997. i saw the copywrite.

Answer 7

i would say that English is widely understood in many parts of the world

Like if you go to the middle east, Africa, far Asia, you will be able to communicate with people in English.

But considering that China is home to more than 1.2 billion (1,200,000,000) people. With a global population of 6 billion, one out of every five people on the planet. And of course they speak chinese so chinese is spoken buy 1/5 of the global population

Answer 8

1 Mandarin  1120 million speakers  

2 English 510 million speakers

3 Hindi  490 million speakers

4 Spanish  425 million  speakers

5 Arabic  255 million speakers  

6 Russian  254 million speakers

7 Portuguese 218 million speakers

8 Bengali 215 million speakers  

9 Malay,  175 million speakers  

10 French 130 million speakers

11 Japanese 127 million speakers

12 German 123 million  speakers

13 Farsi (Iranian) 110 million speakers  

14 Urdu  104 million speakers

15 Punjabi 103 million speakers

16 Vietnamese 86 million speakers  

17 Tamil  78 million speakers  

18 Wu   77 million speakers

19 Javanese  76 million speakers  

20 Turkish  75 million speakers  

Answer 9

English

those, who believe Chinese is the most common language in the world, simply have no idea about dozens of dialects the whole population speaks

Answer 10

English. It is known as the lingua franca of the world.