Comment Re:I was entirely sympathetic to Snowden (Score 1) 330
From The Link; emphasis mine:
These are lists of languages by the number of first and second language speakers. However, particularly because of large uncertainties in estimating the number of secondary speakers, all such lists should be used with caution. In particular, the lists below should be seen as tentative.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=top+language+spoken+2012&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=top+language+spoken+2012&sc=1-24&sp=-1&sk=
give you a random list of who knows who sites. One had Spanish as second above English below Chinese, but I am not saying I trust those random sources.
I guess the argument is mute at this point than. The most official data is 3 years old.