On 9-Sep-2007, at 01:26, Andrew Brown wrote:
A member of the Académie française said recently that more people
speak French than any other language...
I think he meant more people *he speaks with*....
In terms of native speakers, French is about 17th <http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers#Top_20>
In terms of total speakers, English is even ahead of Mandarin and
Hindi, and French is maybe 5th, behind Spanish.
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