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mallory | 16:00 Sun 08th May 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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What is the worlds SECOND most spoken language?

sunday express crossword

S mag 8th may

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johnalex

1st = Mandarin (885m)

2nd = Spanish (332m)

3rd = English (322m)

mallory

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Thanks but where on the www can I confirm the answer.

kempie

Can't prove it to be true but I read somewhere (a few years ago) that there are as many people in China learning English as there are people who speak it as a first language.

Do the figures above indicate whether this is as a first language or does it include foreign polyglots.

kempie

Data from Wikipedia (estimates from 1999)

Mandarin - 867.2 total speakers.

English - 340m as 1st language plus 600m as 2nd.

Spanish - 352m as 1st language plus 65m as 2nd.

johnalex

Hope this helps mallory: www.krysstal.com/spoken.html

Check out this link also for confirmation (and a different answer also!!) Items #19 & #20 www.le.ac.uk/eg/fss1

Toss-up between Encycl Britannia & The Ethnologue.

Good Luck . . .

issy

Since there are over 1,000,000,000 chinese in China plus mandarin speakers in Taiwan, Singapore and other such exotic places, 885,000,000 seems a small figure

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