The table contrasts the numbers of individual who speak each of six languages as their first language with those who use these languages as a second language
Overall, the number of native speakers in each of six languages are higher than that of speakers as an additional ones excepting English. Notably, Mandarin is the most used language by native speakers as well as the total while the reverse is true for Portuguese
The most impressive features of the table that the numbers of individual who speak Mandarin Chinese as their first language is dramatically higher than another with 900 million; and the figure for speakers as additional ones is 190 million, in comparison with that of Hindi is 120 million, respectively. The figure of Hindi’s native speakers stands at around 370 million, making it total to just under a half of billion. There are impressive numbers of people speak Spanish as their mother tongue as well as second language, with around 350 million for the former and 70 million for the latter, respectively.
On the other hand, approximately 206 million people use Arabic as their first language, nearly 182 million higher than that of speaker as alternative ones. As same for this, there are roughly 213 million Portuguese speakers ( 203 million native ones ). Impressively, English is the only language that has figure for native speakers which is fewer than speakers as the second ones, with 339 million for the former and 603 million for the latter, turning it becomes the second highest used in the world.