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what is the most spoken language in the world today?

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  • baldy
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    Chinese

  • 1 decade ago

    English

  • 1 decade ago

    English

  • 1 decade ago

    English

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  • 1 decade ago

    Mandarin Chinese is spoken by the most people, followed by Spanish; sorry to disappoint you xenophobes on both sides of the Atlantic pond but English comes in only at third.

  • 1 decade ago

    Chinese and Mandarin come first. Here is the list of the 50 most spoken languages. Good luck!

  • 1 decade ago

    for i think the most spoken language in the world today is of course English its the internatonal language, were ever you go even whe your in japan, china, singapore communication is not the problem couse everyone could talk in an english language,..am i right?...

  • Gibberish

  • 1 decade ago

    you'd be surprised...

    mandarine

    there are close to 3 billion chinese in china today and the majority speaks mandarine as the universal language amongst them

    (there's cantonese, hokkian, hakka etc...)

    more and more people are beginning to pick up mandarine as the language is more in demand as international trade is growing

    check it out...

    you'll be amazed

  • 1 decade ago

    English.

    FACT: More people speak English in China than in America.

  • 1 decade ago

    english

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