Number of Speakers
|
Language
|
1,268,000,000
|
English
|
1,120,000,000
|
Mandarin Chinese
|
637,300,000
|
Hindi
|
537,900,000
|
Spanish
|
276,600,000
|
French
|
274,000,000
|
Arabic
|
265,200,000
|
Bengali
|
258,000,000
|
Russian
|
252,200,000
|
Portuguese
|
199,000,000
|
Indonesian
|
|
Number of Speakers
|
Language
|
170,600,000
|
Urdu
|
131,600,000
|
German
|
126,400,000
|
Japanese
|
98,500,000
|
Swahili
|
95,300,000
|
Marathi
|
93,000,000
|
Telugu
|
85,200,000
|
Turkish
|
84,900,000
|
Yue Chinese
|
83,800,000
|
Tamil
|
82,800,000
|
Western Punjabi
|
|
Number of Speakers
|
Language
|
81,800,000
|
Wu Chinese
|
79,400,000
|
Korean
|
77,000,000
|
Vietnamese
|
72,700,000
|
Hausa
|
68,300,000
|
Javanese
|
67,800,000
|
Egyptian Arabic
|
67,700,000
|
Italian
|
60,700,000
|
Thai
|
60,700,00
|
Gujarati
|
56,500,000
|
Kannada
|
|