Chinese has a long history and the largest number of users. The number of people who use Chinese in the world is at least 65.438+0.5 billion, which is more than 20% of the world's total population. It is the official language of China and Singapore and one of the six working languages of the United Nations. Mainly distributed in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, as well as the Han communities in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

2. Spanish (Spanish: espa? Ol) is short for Spanish and belongs to Indo-European-Roman-West Roman branch. According to the number of speakers of the first language, about 437 million people use it as their mother tongue, making it the second largest language in the world, second only to Chinese. The number of people who use Spanish accounts for 4.84% of the world population, and the total number of users of the first language and the second language is nearly 570 million.

Among the seven continents, mainly Latin American countries (except Brazil, Belize, French Guiana, Haiti and other places). Spanish is called Spanish in parts of Spain, the United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Ecuador and Uruguay (espa? ol)； In other areas, Spanish is mainly called castellano.

Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

3. English is a language of Indo-European Germanic family, which consists of 26 letters. English letters originated from Latin letters, which originated from Greek letters, which evolved from Phoenician letters.

English is the official language designated internationally (as the mother tongue) and the most extensive first language in the world. English has about 490,000 words and 300,000 technical terms, making it the language with the largest vocabulary. It is also the official language of the European Union, many international organizations and Commonwealth countries, and the number of native speakers ranks third in the world, second only to Chinese and Spanish.

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The number of Chinese speakers is about 654.38+06 billion, accounting for about 20% of the world population.

The number of Spanish speakers is about 422 million, accounting for 4.88% of the world population.

The number of English speakers is about 3.365438 billion, accounting for 4.68% of the world population.

The number of Arabic speakers is about 2 1 1 billion, accounting for 3. 12% of the world population.

The number of people who speak Hindi is about 6.5438+86 million, accounting for 2.74% of the world population.

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