Chinese - 1 Billion+ Native Speakers, Rank by Number of Speakers - 1
Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan language with more than a billion speakers world wide. It is by far the most commonly spoken first language in the world. One out of five people on the planet speaks a form of Chinese. Chinese speakers outnumber speakers in the next most populous linguistic group, Spanish, by almost three to one. (more info)
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