The table below gives information about languages with the most native speakers. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The provided table illustrates the data regarding the languages spoken by native users in six different countries.
Overall
, Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language
in the world, while
Arabic and Portuguese are spoken the least.
To begin
, Mandarin Chinese is used by 1,090 million
people and is the mother tongue of 900 million
individuals. English is the second most spoken language
, with 942 million
speakers
, although
, the number
of native speakers
constitutes 339 million
. Hindi ranks third,
with approximately half the number
of English speakers
at 490 million
, and 370 million
of them use this
language
as a mother tongue.
The number
of local Spanish speakers
makes up 350 million
which is five times higher than the number
of individuals speaking it as a second language
. The usage of Arabic and Portuguese as first languages is around 200 million
each with only 24 and 10 million
people respectively choosing them as second languages.Submitted by zuleykhaaliyeva223 on
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