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Is the most common language really Spanish? I thought it might be Mandarin.
Yeah, I looked it up and I am way off! It’s actually…. (drumroll) English at about 19% followed by Mandarin with 13, then Hindi at about 8%.
You mean to tell me that 60% of the world speaks “other”?
Apparently. Here is a list, sourced from the CIA World Facebook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
The top 10 add up to about 65%, with the last several having about a 3.5% share each.