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I personally believe that English should be the national language of the United States, but whatever language one uses, one should attempt to make questions intelligible, spelled correctly, specific, and grammatical.
It was quite common in those days for educated gentlemen to speak, or at least read, Latin and/or French and maybe even Greek. Not all of the Founding Fathers had these accomplishments but many did. Michael Montagne
The Founding Fathers of the United States of America never opposed making English an official language; they generally did not consider the question. Benjamin Franklin once jokingly suggested that German should be the national language.
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About 500,000,000 people speak English as a first language, so that would be around 7% of all humans speak English as a first language. As any other language but first, it is estimated that 2,100,000,000 humans speak English, or about 30%.