The table illustrates information about the number of native speakers in six languages. Overall, we can see that Mandarin Chinese has by far the highest figure of native, while English has the greatest amount of speakers who not speak English as a mother tongue.
First, the result number of speakers Mandarin Chinese is 1090 million people. Almost of these people are native speakers, which is a large margin than other things being compared by 900 million people. Additionally, for the rest is responsible by a person who learned mandarin Chinese after they native language. Similar with Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, and Portuguese that have amount of native tongue greater than speakers as an additional language, however the gap between these two types is not large as same as Mandarin Chinese. The overall amount of those languages is 490 million, 420 million, 230 million, and 213 million respectively. The number of people who is non-native of Portuguese is the least if compared with others at 10 million. In addition, for number of non-native speakers of Arabic is 24 million, 70 million of Spanish, and 120 million of Hindi.
In the other hand, English is the only one language in the list that has speakers as alternative language larger than parent language speakers that is 603 million. The difference between these two types at around 264 million people. As a result, the total of native English speakers is 942 million, it be the second language with the most native speakers behind Mandarin Chinese.
