The above table illustrates the data about various languages with the highest native speakers.
Overall, Mandarin Chinese is considered to have the highest number of native speakers while Portuguese has the lowest native speakers. In comparison, English is the most spoken additional language while Portuguese is the least.
Over 900 million people speak Mandarin Chinese as their main language while 190 million have chosen it as an additional language. On the whole, there are a total of 1090 million speakers of this language. Similarly, from a total of 490 million, Hindi is spoken by 370 million population as the native tongue and 120 million as an extra language. Also, from 420 million, 350 million individuals’ mother tongue is Spanish while the rest speak it as another language.
Conversely, although 942 million population can speak English, it is the native language of only 339 million people while it is an additionally spoken language by the rest. Likewise, Arabic and Portuguese are spoken by 206 and 203 million human race worldwide as the mother tongue respectively, while 24 and 10 million individuals consider them as extra-spoken languages respectively.