About 280 million.
With around 272.9 million speakers, Portuguese is the fifth-most spoken language in the world.
Nowadays there are over 4,500 Brazilian and 800 Portuguese nationals registered as formal immigrants in Mexico. There are also many descendants of both Portuguese and Brazilian nationals, but most often than not, these are bilingual (Spanish/Portuguese). Also many people speak Portuguese for business reasons, but these are very difficult, if not impossible to count.
about 28 milion people can speak balochi language in the world.
Roughly 1.2 billion people speak Chinese as their first language, making it the most spoken language in the world.
People living in Portugal speaks portuguese, but some people over there can speak english, like many people allover the world, in almost all nations.
There was an agreement made among all the Portuguese speaking nations that in order to keep the language homogeneous they would implement a definitive version or standard of the language. It was decided that the Brazilian Portuguese would be the standard because Brazil is the largest and most populated of those countries. In other words, most people who speak Portuguese, speak Brazilian Portuguese anyway.Also, it had to do with power. Of all those nations, Brazil is the most powerful and richest country. Brazil is the fifth largest economy in the world and that gives them a lot of clout.Even though the government of Portugal signed the agreement implementing Brazilian Portuguese as the standard, the Portuguese people are uneasy about this decision. It is hard for them to come to terms with it.No, the official version of the Portuguese language is the Portuguese spoken in Portugal. Brazilian Portuguese is the official version in Brazil, but for the rest of the world, it is valid the Portugal language, which means the Portuguese spoken in Portugal. Being the 6th economy in the world nothing represents in terms of language. The official english language is that spoken in England, although the USA is economically much more bigger than England.
Approximately 90 million people around the world speak Spanish as a second language.
Speakers who are just learning Portuguese tend to speak the language slowly. As speakers build up confidence with more experience and practice, they tend to speak faster. And the better and faster an individual speaks Portuguese, the more native their speech sounds. For Portuguese and Spanish are among the world's languages that squeeze the most number of syllables per minute into their conversations.
10 countries (including China via Macau) in the world have Portuguese as an official language. However, much more people speak Portuguese in the world, nearly major country has large Portuguese speaking populations. (United States, Spain, Canada, United Kingdom, etc.)
Approximately 1.2 million people in the world speak Tibetan as their native language.
Hindi is the third most spoken language in the world. More than 800 million people speak Hindi.
Over a billion people worldwide speak Chinese as their native language, making it the most spoken language in the world. There are also many second language speakers of Chinese, further increasing the total number of individuals who speak the language.