English is 75% second-language
Only 380M of English's 1.52B speakers are native — no other top-10 language relies this heavily on adoption rather than birth.
3 of the top 10 are Indian languages
Hindi, Bengali and Marathi together represent over 950M speakers, reflecting India's outsized linguistic footprint.
Russian is the only language shrinking
Post-Soviet states favoring national languages put Russian on track to lose roughly 25M speakers by 2050.
English + Mandarin ≈ 34% of internet content
Despite representing under 3% of living languages, these two dominate the internet's written content share.