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.

  • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    English (1,452 million speakers) First language: 372.9 million

    This is already wrong, which means your entire premise is prob wrong

    anglozone population = 510 million. I’m pretty sure more than 72% of that population speaks english fluently