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奶奶的，法语怎么就掉到18名去了呢？（原来是1亿3千万French speakers 里，有约一半的人法语都是第二语言。而native说日语的有1亿2千6百万。）

iron(iron man)
  Language approximate # of speakers   Where is it spoken as an official language?
18. French NATIVE: 67 million
2nd: 63 million
TOTAL: 130 million		   OFFICIAL or NATIONAL: Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, French Polynesia, Gabon, Guernsey, Guinea, Haiti, India (Karikal, Pondicherry), Italy, Jersey, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Monaco, New Caledonia, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, United States (Louisiana), Vanuatu.
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  • 工作学习 / 外语学习 / "Top 10 Most Spoken Languages in the World" -- 我的目标是能流利地说其中的一半。 -iron(iron man); 2010-2-9 (#5872797@0)
    • Another list of "Top 30 Languages by Number of Native Speakers" -iron(iron man); 2010-2-9 {7510} (#5872894@0)
      只列出 TOP 10 here，其它的暂时忽略不计。

        Language approximate # of speakers   Where is it spoken as an official language?
      1. Mandarin Chinese NATIVE: 873 million
      2nd: 178 million
      TOTAL: 1.051 billion      		   OFFICIAL: People's Republic of China, Republic of China, Singapore
      2. Hindi NATIVE: 370 million
      2nd:120 million
      TOTAL: 490 million      		   OFFICIAL: India, Fiji
      3. Spanish NATIVE: 350 million
      2nd: 70 million
      TOTAL: 420 million      		   OFFICIAL: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, United States (New Mexico, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela
      4. English NATIVE: 340 million
      TOTAL: 510 million      		   OFFICIAL: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong (People's Republic of China), India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Maritius, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevs, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somolia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
      5. Arabic NATIVE: 206 million
      2nd: 24 million
      TOTAL: 230 million

      [World Almanac est. total 255 million]      		   OFFICIAL: Modern Standard Arabic: Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Quatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen. | Hasaniya Arabic: Mauritania, Senegal
      NATIONAL: Mali

      Note: These figures combine all the varieties of Arabic. Some data sources, e.g. CIA World Fact Book, World Almanac, Ethnologue, treat these varieties as separate languages.
      6. Portuguese NATIVE: 203 million
      2nd: 10 million
      TOTAL: 213 million      		   OFFICIAL: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Macau (People's Republic of China), Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé e Príncipe.
      7. Bengali NATIVE: 196 million
      TOTAL: 215 million      		   OFFICIAL: Bangladesh, India (Tripura, West Bengal)
      8. Russian NATIVE: 145 million
      2nd: 110 million
      TOTAL: 255 million      		   OFFICIAL: Abkhazia (part of Georgia), Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyyrgyzstan, Russia, Transnistria (part of Moldova).
      9. Japanese NATIVE: 126 million
      2nd: 1 million
      TOTAL: 127 million      		   OFFICIAL: Japan, Palau
      10. German NATIVE: 101 million
      2nd: 128 million
      TOTAL: 229 million      		   OFFICIAL: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy (South Tyrol), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Siwtzerland
      • 奶奶的，法语怎么就掉到18名去了呢？（原来是1亿3千万French speakers 里，有约一半的人法语都是第二语言。而native说日语的有1亿2千6百万。） -iron(iron man); 2010-2-9 {1763} (#5872918@0)
          Language approximate # of speakers   Where is it spoken as an official language?
        18. French NATIVE: 67 million
        2nd: 63 million
        TOTAL: 130 million        		   OFFICIAL or NATIONAL: Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, French Polynesia, Gabon, Guernsey, Guinea, Haiti, India (Karikal, Pondicherry), Italy, Jersey, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Monaco, New Caledonia, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, United States (Louisiana), Vanuatu.

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