Worlds largest spoken languages.please share your views on it

 

<table border="1" class="sgmltable"><tbody><tr><th>Language<sup class="fnr">1</sup></th><th>Approx. number
of speakers</th></tr><tr><td> 1. Chinese<sup class="fnr">2</sup></td><td>1,197,000,000</td></tr><tr><td> 2. Spanish</td><td>414,000,000</td></tr><tr><td> 3. English</td><td>335,000,000</td></tr><tr><td> 4. Hindi</td><td>260,000,000</td></tr><tr><td> 5. Arabic<sup class="fnr">3</sup></td><td>237,000,000</td></tr><tr><td> 6. Portuguese</td><td>203,000,000</td></tr><tr><td> 7. Bengali</td><td>193,000,000</td></tr><tr><td> 8. Russian</td><td>167,000,000</td></tr><tr><td> 9. Japanese</td><td>122,000,000</td></tr><tr><td>10. Javanese</td><td>84,300,000</td></tr></tbody></table>