List of most spoken languages in the world
Mandarin (entire branch)
|
955,000,000
|
Spanish
|
405,000,000
|
English
|
360,000,000
|
Hindi
|
310,000,000
|
Arabic
|
295,000,000
|
Portuguese
|
215,000,000
|
Bengali
|
205,000,000
|
Russian
|
155,000,000
|
Japanese
|
125,000,000
|
Punjabi
|
100,000,000
|
German
|
89,000,000
|
Javanese
|
82,000,000
|
Wu (inc. Shanghainese)
|
80,000,000
|
Malay (inc. Malaysian and Indonesian)
|
77,000,000
|
Telugu
|
76,000,000
|
Vietnamese
|
76,000,000
|
Korean
|
76,000,000
|
French
|
75,000,000
|
Marathi
|
73,000,000
|
Tamil
|
70,000,000
|
Urdu
|
66,000,000
|
Turkish
|
63,000,000
|
Italian
|
59,000,000
|
Yue (incl. Cantonese)
|
59,000,000
|
Thai (excl. Lao)
|
56,000,000
|
Gujarati
|
49,000,000
|
Jin
|
48,000,000
|
Southern Min (incl. Fujianese/Hokkien)
|
47,000,000
|
Persian
|
45,000,000
|
Polish
|
40,000,000
|
Pashto
|
39,000,000
|
Kannada
|
38,000,000
|
Xiang (Hunnanese)
|
38,000,000
|
Malayalam
|
38,000,000
|
Sundanese
|
38,000,000
|
Hausa
|
34,000,000
|
Odia (Oriya)
|
33,000,000
|
Burmese
|
33,000,000
|
Hakka
|
31,000,000
|
Ukrainian
|
30,000,000
|
Bhojpuri
|
29,000,000
|
Tagalog/Filipino
|
28,000,000
|
Yoruba
|
28,000,000
|
Maithili
|
27,000,000
|
Uzbek
|
26,000,000
|
Sindhi
|
26,000,000
|
Amharic
|
25,000,000
|
Fula
|
24,000,000
|
Romanian
|
24,000,000
|
Oromo
|
24,000,000
|
Igbo
|
24,000,000
|
Azerbaijani
|
23,000,000
|
Awadhi
|
22,000,000
|
Gan Chinese
|
22,000,000
|
Cebuano (Visayan)
|
21,000,000
|
Dutch
|
21,000,000
|
Kurdish
|
21,000,000
|
Serbo-Croatian
|
19,000,000
|
Malagasy
|
18,000,000
|
Saraiki
|
17,000,000
|
Nepali
|
17,000,000
|
Sinhalese
|
16,000,000
|
Chittagonian
|
16,000,000
|
Zhuang
|
16,000,000
|
Khmer
|
16,000,000
|
Turkmen
|
16,000,000
|
Assamese
|
15,000,000
|
Madurese
|
15,000,000
|
Somali
|
15,000,000
|
Marwari
|
14,000,000
|
Magahi
|
14,000,000
|
Haryanvi
|
14,000,000
|
Hungarian
|
13,000,000
|
Chhattisgarhi
|
12,000,000
|
Greek
|
12,000,000
|
Chewa
|
12,000,000
|
Deccan
|
11,000,000
|
Akan
|
11,000,000
|
Kazakh
|
11,000,000
|
Northern Min
|
10,900,000
|
Sylheti
|
10,700,000
|
Zulu
|
10,400,000
|
Czech
|
10,000,000
|
Kinyarwanda
|
9,800,000
|
Dhundhari
|
9,600,000
|
Haitian Creole
|
9,600,000
|
Eastern Min
|
9,500,000
|
Ilocano
|
9,100,000
|
Quechua
|
8,900,000
|
Kirundi
|
8,800,000
|
Swedish
|
8,700,000
|
Hmong
|
8,400,000
|
Shona
|
8,300,000
|
Uyghur
|
8,200,000
|
Hiligaynon/Ilonggo (Visayan)
|
8,200,000
|
Mossi
|
7,600,000
|
Xhosa
|
7,600,000
|
Belarusian
|
7,600,000
|
Balochi
|
7,600,000
|
Konkani
|
7,400,000
|
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