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by Stefanos Sampatakakis , Head of Health Sector Coordination , General Secretarial of Governmental Coordination

If by "most speakers" you mean arithmetically, then the top-3 languages are: Chinese, Spanish and English.

If on the other hand you mean in terms of geographic spread, then it should be English, Spanish and Arabic.

I hope it helps.

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by Hazem Salam , IT Infrastructure Coordinator , Niagara College KSA

I think it some Chinese language, but only spoken in China itself

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by Shoeb Saleem , Sales Executive / Supervisor , Vishal Retail Limited

Every language has its own good speakers.english is a international language so mostly country speak english this is the second lanuage of evey country.

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by Muhammad Umer Farooq , QA/QC Engineer , AL Sabah Electro Mechanical & Plumbing Company (AL FARA’A GROUP)

Every language has its own good speakers. As English is about an International language so English has most speakers. After English, Arabic ,chinese and Hindi languages has most speakers.

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