Will English be the first language to pass 2 billion speakers worldwide?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers#Top_languages_by_population

As of market creation, English is in the lead with 1.5 billion, with Manderin Chinese in second with 1.1 billion.

In the case of disagreement about what constitutes a language, the bar will be that of mutual intelligibility.

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What source do you plan to use? Wikipedia? Ethnologue? Do you have plans if they change their metric (who counts as an English speaker, and how they count)?

@Boklam Wikipedia, or another reliable source if Wikipedia stops being so.

In the case of disagreement about what constitutes a language, the bar will be that of mutual intelligibility.

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