[Amazigh Man]

first of all thanks for Larache4eva, LalaMimi and Lotfi-dz for their participations.

1- the most (as a mother tongue) spoken languages in the world are:

Chinese-Mandarin 13.69% (of the world's population)

Spanish 5.05%

English 4.84%

Hindi 2.82%

Portuguese 2.77%

Bengali 2.68%

Russian 2.27%

Japanese 1.99%

German Standard 1.49%

Chinese- Wu 1.21%

(in some other statistics English is second not third! because a lot of latinos in the US prefer to use English not Spanish between themselves and with their kids)

For Arabic you can't consider Moroccan arabic and Iraqi or Syrian Arabic as one.!

for those arabs of the middle east, Moroccan Arabic is some kind of Chinese.. Arabs can't understand Moroccan Darija. Because Darija is a mix of Arabic and amazigh... and the pronuciation of it is amazigh.

And classical Arabic is only used in books and news and prayers... Arabs do not use it on the streets or at homes..!! so you can't consider it as a mother tongue!

2- Switzerland has 3 official languages: German, French and Italian. Romantsch is recognized but not official.
in Switzerland is the majority for German: 65%.
French: 18%
Italian: 10%

3- The closest language to Amazigh language is, ladies and gentlemen: Egyptian. not Egyptian Arabic, but real Egyptian: the language of the Pharaos.

And Egypt was ruled by an Amazigh family for nearly 200 years after that the Pharao's army was defeated by the Army of Amazigh king Shishanak. and Shishanak became the new Pharao of Egypt!

4- it's an opinion question of course. I think it's English too. I am still waiting for somebody to convince me that there is an easier language to learn than English!
Español is famous of its difficult structure of verbs!
but I think that it's really a beatiful language... and experts believe that Spanish has a bright future in the 21st century!... maybe it could defeat English some day!!!! who knows for sure?!