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Is Mandarin the most widely spoken language?

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peanut on April 18, 2009

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Yeah, Mandarin Chinese has 600 million native speakers and over a billion total speakers. It is the most widely spoken language in the world.

English also has about a billion total speakers but half as many native speakers (300 million).

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