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Direction: Study the following table and answer the question:
The following table shows the number of first-language speakers (in millions) of the seven most widely spoken languages, namely, English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, French, Portugese and Arabic. There are 3800 known languages spoken worldwide, 1/7 are expected to die out over the next 40 years and 72.5% are predicted to die out in the next 100 years. As a first language, 3/7 of the world's population speaks the seven most widely spoken languages and a further 1.7 billion speak one of the seven languages as a second language. Based on the data in the table, answer the question.
Language-wise First Language Speakers
Direction: Study the following table and answer the question:
The following table shows the number of first-language speakers (in millions) of the seven most widely spoken languages, namely, English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, French, Portugese and Arabic. There are 3800 known languages spoken worldwide, 1/7 are expected to die out over the next 40 years and 72.5% are predicted to die out in the next 100 years. As a first language, 3/7 of the world's population speaks the seven most widely spoken languages and a further 1.7 billion speak one of the seven languages as a second language. Based on the data in the table, answer the question.
Language-wise First Language Speakers
| Most Widely Spoken Languages | Number of First-Language Speakers (in millions) |
| English | 1386 |
| Chinese | 1000 |
| Spanish | 280 |
| Russian | 270 |
| French | 220 |
| Portugese | 160 |
| Arabic | 140 |
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