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There are about 3000 living languages in the world, but only six of them are the most important ones. Two-thirds of the world’s population speaks those languages. More than 400 million people speak English as their mother tongue. Another 400 million speak it as a second language. No one knows how many people speak it as a foreign language. Chinese is the language with more speakers than English, but it is only the language for more than one billion Chinese people. English is the official language on one-fifth of the land area in the world.
1. How many living languages are there in the world?
2. How many people in the world speaks English?
3. Are there 400 million people speak English as their mother tongue?
4. Why do many people speak English?
