Most Learned Languages

Can you name the languages with at least 20 million L2 speakers (as of April 2022)?
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Pidgin languages are not included
*All spoken versions are dialects
**Not including the full macrolanguage
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L2 Speakers
Native Speakers
Language
1.08b
373m
English
274m*
0*
Arabic (Standard)
258m
344m
Hindi
199m
929m
Mandarin
194m
80m
French
161m
70m
Urdu
155m**
44m**
Indonesian
104m
154m
Russian
73m
475m
Spanish
59m
76m
German
55m
16m
Swahili
54m
28m
Tagalog
40m
20m
Thai
39m
234m
Bengali
26m
51m
Hausa
25m
232m
Portuguese
25m
32m
Amharic
21m
56m
Persian
20m
20m
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9 Comments
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Level 71
Apr 26, 2022
linguistics is boring. Take a different elective
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Level 57
Apr 26, 2022
reported for hate speech
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Level 44
May 4, 2025
nice quiz
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Level 32
May 4, 2025
why does it say arabic has 0 native speakers? im confused
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Level 59
May 5, 2025
The asterisk indicates a note at the top: 'All spoken versions are dialects'.
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Level 57
May 5, 2025
Standard arabic is not actually spoken natively. There is a sort of dialect continuum from Morocco to Iraq, with people on opposite sides not really speaking the same dialect. However, many people can write and speak in the same standardized Arabic that they would learn in school.
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Level 69
May 18, 2025
Some of these L2 figures seem suspiciously low, especially Spanish
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Level 55
Jun 11, 2025
bahasa as a write-in for Indonesian?
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Level 57
Oct 8, 2025
Good point! added