"most spoken" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe the language most commonly spoken by a group of people. For example, "English is the most spoken language in the United States."
In the book-translation network, the world's most spoken language is isolated, connected mainly to other Chinese languages plus a few in South-East Asia, notably Vietnamese.
Looking at the way the world is going and the fact that Mandarin is going to be the second most spoken language within five years time, what's the point in learning a limited language like French?
The proportion of ethnic Chinese has inched up, the number of mainland students enrolled in Hong Kong universities has increased and Mandarin has overtaken English as the second most spoken language.
Tufa grew up learning English, Arabic and Turkish but, for reasons Tufa couldn't fathom at the time, her father also made sure she could speak Oromo, the fourth most spoken language in Africa.
Our language, Catalan, has been prosecuted since 1714 and was banned during the 40-year Franco dictatorship; but it is now the ninth most spoken language in the EU, with more speakers than Swedish, Finnish, Danish or Greek.
Most spoken disfluencies, it is argued, are not problems in speaking, but the solutions to problems in speaking.
With more than 37 million speakers in the United States, Spanish is the country's second-most spoken language.
"It's the most spoken-about topic at dinner parties in Paris," said the 40-year-old Brit proudly.
With 140 nationalities among them, they also come in as many colors as New Yorkers and speak as many languages -- Chinese is the second most-spoken.
According to a 2013 Pew report, Spanish is the second-most spoken language in the country and many people, both immigrant and native-born, were raised speaking it.
This article was amended on 4 February 2013 because the original said that Polish is the second-most spoken language in the UK.
