Is the Tower of Babel still affecting us or something?

Edit:

We have 8 billion people, yet the best we could muster for the most total speakers of a language is under 2 billion, including non-natives…

  1. English (1,452 million speakers) First language: 372.9 million Total speakers: 1.4+ billion According to Ethnologue, English is the most-spoken language in the world including native and non-native speakers.

https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world#:~:text=1.,English (1%2C452 million speakers)&text=According to Ethnologue%2C English is,native and non-native speakers.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      53·
      6 months ago

      It is a somewhat naïvely-framed question, but also you could have just clicked downvote and moved on with your day.

    • GulbuddinHekmatyar@lemmy.mlOP
      33·
      6 months ago

      Tell me, where is this global language where it has 3.5 billion speakers, if not half? You’ve indicated it’s not the case…?

      Do you think I ask in bad faith, or do you ask in bad faith?