- 01 Oct 09, 14:17#159182







Jim Riven wrote:Stats taken from the same website you failed to read fully.lol thats her corrected then
Thus, if you add the secondary speaker populations to the primary speaker populations, you get the following (and I believe more accurate) list:
(number of speakers in parentheses)
1. Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion)
2. English (480 million)
3. Spanish (320 million)
The following is a list of these languages in terms of the number of countries where each is spoken. The number that follows is the total number of countries that use that language (from Weber, 1997):
1. English (115)
2. French (35)
3. Arabic (24)
4. Spanish (20)
Weber compiled the following list of the world's ten most influential languages:
(number of points given in parentheses)
1. English (37)
2. French (23)
3. Spanish (20)
Ironically Spanish seems to fall into 3rd place quite often and has been pushed into 4th in one table. reminds me of Ferrari in this years WCC.
"Nice accent, where u from ?" Austria ! "well in that case, g'day mate, throw another shrimp on the barbie!"





