[language] ranked by number of speakers

I have to give an address today at the opening of the new linguistic university and this is my intro. Thought the blogosphere might also be interested: 1 Chinese (Mandarin) 1,000,000,000 + 2 English 508,000,000 3 Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) 497,000,000 4 Spanish 392,000,000 5 Russian 277,000,000 6 Arabic 246,000,000 7 Bengali 211,000,000 8 Portuguese 191,000,000 9 Malay-Indonesian 159,000,000 10 French 129,000,000 [source: http://www.aneki.com/languages.html] + 97% of languages are spoken by 4% of the world's people [source: IELTS - Longmans]