English comes in at third place with 335m speakers, 225m of which come from the US and 55.6m of which come from the UK – although that’s counting folk from Liverpool, Newcastle, Wales and Scotland, where the locals more mumble, exclaim or just make weird noises rather than actually talking.
As well as the two aforementioned, Canada has 19.4m speakers, Australia 15.6m, and South Africa, Ireland, New Zealand and Singapore also have well over 1m speakers.
