Can you explain this:
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Just a note to clarify: English doesn't even make the top 10 for number of speakers of native languages...
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The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:
(number of native speakers in parentheses)
1. Chinese* (937,132,000)
2. Spanish (332,000,000)
3. English (322,000,000)
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It appears to be 3 on the list...