The table below gives information about languages with the most native speakers.

Information on the number of native speakers of six prominent global languages and their additional number of speakers is depicted in the giventable.

Overall, Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language and it has the highest number of native speakers. However, English has the highest number of additional speakers though it stands fourth on the table.

As per the table, most number of native speakers are there for Mandarin Chinese(900 million), whereas the most number of additional speakers of a particular language is there for English (603 million). An additional 190 million non-native speakers make the former language the most spoken language in the world(1,090). English enjoys the second position with an aggregate of 942 million global speakers, inclusive of 339 million native speakers.

Hindi and Spanish stand at second and third positions, with an average of 360 million native speakers and 95 million additional speakers. The least popular languages in the chart are Arabic and Portuguese (206 and 203 million respectively).  When Arabic has 24 million additional speakers, Portuguese has just 10 million.

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