TRUE OR FALSE? Is Spanish the most widely spoken language in the world?

False. The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:


(number of native speakers in parentheses)





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)





* The totals given for Chinese, Arabic, and French include more than one SIL variety.TRUE OR FALSE? Is Spanish the most widely spoken language in the world?
False.





Very false.





Mandarin is the most widely spoken language. (Chinese)TRUE OR FALSE? Is Spanish the most widely spoken language in the world?
depends on if you're counting the most PEOPLE speaking it, or the most COUNTRIES having it as the main language
No, we are in 2nd place Chinese Mandarin is the most spoken.
FALSE
not true