Hindi in World - second most spoken language by "native speaker" as well as others who know it after Chinese then why to run behind English

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Top 30 Languages by Number of Native Speakers

Data source: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th ed. (2005) & Wikipedia.org.

	Language	approximate # of speakers		Where is it spoken as an official language?
1.	Mandarin Chinese	NATIVE: 873 million 2nd: 178 million TOTAL: 1.051 billion		OFFICIAL: People's Republic of China, Republic of China, Singapore
2.	Hindi	NATIVE: 370 million 2nd:120 million TOTAL: 490 million		OFFICIAL: India, Fiji, Mauritius
3.	Spanish	NATIVE: 350 million 2nd: 70 million TOTAL: 420 million		OFFICIAL: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, United States (New Mexico, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela
4.	English	NATIVE: 340 million TOTAL: 510 million		OFFICIAL: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong (People's Republic of China), India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Maritius, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevs, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somolia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
5.	Arabic	NATIVE: 206 million 2nd: 24 million TOTAL: 230 million [World Almanac est. total 255 million]		OFFICIAL: Modern Standard Arabic: Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Quatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen. | Hasaniya Arabic: Mauritania, Senegal NATIONAL: Mali Note: These figures combine all the varieties of Arabic. Some data sources, e.g. CIA World Fact Book, World Almanac, Ethnologue, treat these varieties as separate languages.
6.	Portuguese	NATIVE: 203 million 2nd: 10 million TOTAL: 213 million		OFFICIAL: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Macau (People's Republic of China), Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé e Príncipe.
7.	Bengali	NATIVE: 196 million TOTAL: 215 million		OFFICIAL: Bangladesh, India (Tripura, West Bengal)
8.	Russian	NATIVE: 145 million 2nd: 110 million TOTAL: 255 million		OFFICIAL: Abkhazia (part of Georgia), Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyyrgyzstan, Russia, Transnistria (part of Moldova).
9.	Japanese	NATIVE: 126 million 2nd: 1 million TOTAL: 127 million		OFFICIAL: Japan, Palau
10.	German	NATIVE: 101 million 2nd: 128 million TOTAL: 229 million		OFFICIAL: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy (South Tyrol), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Siwtzerland

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