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The 10 Most Spoken Languages in the World
Ranking the global languages by total number of native (L1) and second-language (L2) speakers.
1
English Indo-European
1.456 Billion
2
Mandarin Chinese Sino-Tibetan
1.138 Billion
3
Hindi Indo-European
609.4 Million
4
Spanish Indo-European
559.0 Million
5
French Indo-European
309.8 Million
6
Modern Standard Arabic Afro-Asiatic
273.9 Million
7
Bengali Indo-European
272.8 Million
8
Portuguese Indo-European
263.6 Million
9
Russian Indo-European
254.9 Million
10
Urdu Indo-European
231.7 Million