Re: French to Replace English with Latin as Europes Official Language
Originally Posted by
Bruce
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Sorry to burst your bubble but surely it is first language speakers that matter anything else is just a guess.
World languages by native speakers (numbers in millions)
Mandarin Chinese 918
Spanish 480
English 379
Hindi 341
Bengali 228
Portuguese 221
Russian 154
Japanese 128
Western Punjabi[10] 92.7
Marathi 83.1
Telugu 82
Wu Chinese 81.4
Turkish 79.4
Korean 77.3
French 77.2
https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/languages.htm
Who cares about native speakers ? English is an international language as a 1st, 2nd and 3rd language.
Native speakers of mandarin (or any other language) don't avoid learning English do they, the Chinese are buying our schools, studying over here and changing their names to English ones to boost career prospects. Thats how popular English is...