New Infographic Reveals English Isn’t As Natively Spoken As You Think

Did you know that Chinese is the world’s most spoken native language? Or that more people speak Spanish than English as their mother tongue?

Journalist Alberto Lucas Lopez’s language infographic beautifully breaks down the world’s most popular native languages and where they’re spoken. Out of the world’s 7,000 known languages, 23 make up the native tongue of the majority of the world’s people — around 4.1 billion. This infographic illustrates where these are spoken and by who.

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