The table below gives information about languages with the most native speakers.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The table illustrates the number of native speakers of six languages as well as the number of speakers of these languages as an additional language. It is noticeable that the number of speakers of Mandarin Chinese is strikingly higher than the other languages with over one billion speakers.
People who speak Mandarin largely speak it as a first language (900 million). In comparison to this only 190 million people speak Mandarin Chinese as an additional language. What is remarkable about English speakers is that the number of speakers of English as an additional language is higher than that of native speakers of English (603 and 339 million respectively).
While the total number of Hindi speakers (490 million) is roughly equal to that of Spanish speakers (420 million); when it comes to speaking these languages as an additional language the number for Hindi is much higher (120 million) than that for Spanish (70 million).
Native speakers of Arabic and Portuguese are similar in number with 206 million and 203 million respectively. However, the number of Arabic speakers as an additional language (24 million) is almost 2.5 times higher than speakers of Portuguese as an additional language.
该表显示了以六种语言为母语的人数,以及将这些语言作为附加语言的人数。值得注意的是,使用汉语的人数明显高于其他语言,超过10亿人。
说普通话的人主要是把它作为第一语言(9亿)。相比之下,只有1.9亿人将汉语普通话作为第二语言。说英语的人最引人注目的是,把英语作为附加语言的人比以英语为母语的人多(分别为6.03亿和3.39亿)。
虽然讲印地语的总人数(4.9亿)与讲西班牙语的人数(4.2亿)大致相等,但在讲这些语言作为附加语言时,讲印地语的人数(1.2亿)比讲西班牙语的人数(7千万)高得多。
阿拉伯语和葡萄牙语的母语使用者人数相似,分别为2.06亿和2.03亿。然而,作为附加语言的阿拉伯语使用者的人数(2 400万)几乎是作为附加语言的葡萄牙语使用者的2.5倍。