• Jrockwar@feddit.uk
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      Language Native Speakers Total Speakers Sources
      English ~380 million ~1.5 billion Wikipedia
      German ~76–95 million ~155–220 million Wikipedia
      Mandarin ~941 million–1.12 billion ~1.1–1.3 billion Wikipedia

      Well, it has 10x more speakers than German, but it still has fewer speakers than English and most of them are localised in a single country.

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      Please stop being an obnoxious ass. English is the de-facto lingua franca of the world, acting like German is in any way comparable is just disingenuous.