Smith <c.smith@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:

> The students at the school came from many different countries, and there
> were only a few native English speakers.

Of the worlds 6.522 million people, 480 million or 7,4% speak english.

Under normal circumstances I would translate this, but I consider
norwegian to be the next world language:

Her er en troverdig liste med f$(D??(Brstespr$(D??(Bk: (1st language)

1. Mandarin (1.1 milliarder)
2. Engelsk (330 million)
3. Spansk (300 million)
4. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)
5. Arabisk (200 million)
6. Bengalsk (185 million)
7. Portugisisk (160 million)
8. Russisk (160 million)
9. Japansk (125 million)
10. Tysk (100 million)  (=german)
11. Punjabi (90 million)
12. Javanesisk (80 million)
13. Fransk (75 million)
- -

En liste over annetspr$(D??(Bk: (2 language)

1. Fransk (190 million)
2. Engelsk (150 million)
3. Russisk (125 million)
4. Portugisisk (28 million)
5. Arabisk (21 million)
6. Spansk (20 million)
7. Mandarin (20 million)
8. Tysk (9 million)
9. Japansk (8 million)
- -

Og sl$(D??(Br man disse sammen f$(D??(Br man en liste over hvor mangs om faktisk
snakker de forskjellige spr$(D??(Bkene: (Total)

1. Mandarin (1.12 milliard)
2. Engelsk (480 million)
3. Spansk (320 million)
4. Russisk (285 million)
5. Fransk (265 million)
6. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)
7. Arabisk (221 million)
8. Portugisisk (188 million)
9. Bengalsk (185 million)
10. Japansk (133 million)
11. Tysk (109 million)

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