For an image, the term monochrome is usually taken to mean the same as black and white or, more likely, grayscale, but may also be used to refer to other combinations containing only tones of a single color, such as green-and-white or green-and-black.
Chinese has more native speakers than any other language, followed by Hindi and Urdu, which have the same linguistic origins in northern India. English comes next with 527 million native speakers. Arabic is used by nearly 100 million more native speakers than Spanish. The numbers are fascinating because they reflect the fact that two-thirds of the world's population share only 12 native languages.
, 8 Years Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. 1  Cantonese (80 million native speakers) is a lively language and will endear you do those in Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong province. 2  Mandarin is by far the more common language, and the #1 tongue in the world in terms of native speakers. One of the reasons that someone may think that Cantonese speakers number the same as Mandarin is that the first Chinese immigrants to the United States were from Guangdong province and spoke Cantonese or regional dialects.