Native Speakers
|
Language
|
1,132,366,680
|
English
|
1,116,596,640
|
Mandarin Chinese
|
615,475,540
|
Hindi
|
534,335,730
|
Spanish
|
279,821,930
|
French
|
273,989,700
|
Arabic
|
265,042,480
|
Bengali
|
258,227,760
|
Russian
|
234,168,620
|
Portuguese
|
198,733,600
|
Indonesian
|
170,208,780
|
Urdu
|
132,176,520
|
German
|
128,350,830
|
Japanese
|
98,327,740
|
Swahili
|
95,312,800
|
Marathi
|
93,040,340
|
Telugu
|
92,725,700
|
Western Punjabi
|
81,501,290
|
Wu Chinese
|
80,989,130
|
Tamil
|
79,779,360
|
Turkish
|
77,264,890
|
Korean
|
76,950,770
|
Vietnamese
|
73,538,610
|
Yue Chinese
|
68,277,600
|
Javanese
|
67,894,920
|
Italian
|
64,618,100
|
Egyptian Arabic
|
63,428,100
|
Hausa
|
60,657,660
|
Thai
|
60,588,970
|
Gujarati
|
56,463,310
|
Kannada
|
52,782,160
|
Iranian Persian
|
52,405,300
|
Bhojpuri
|
50,462,190
|
Southern Min Chinese
|
48,467,490
|
Hakka Chinese
|
46,900,000
|
Jinyu Chinese
|
45,000,000
|
Filipino
|
42,912,350
|
Burmese
|
40,378,030
|
Polish
|
39,844,260
|
Yoruba
|
38,051,547
|
Odia
|
37,829,870
|
Malayalam
|
37,300,000
|
Xiang Chinese
|
34,085,000
|
Maithili
|
33,082,790
|
Ukrainian
|
32,608,700
|
Moroccan Arabic
|
32,601,140
|
Eastern Punjabi
|
32,400,000
|
Sunda
|
32,387,600
|
Algerian Arabic
|
31,940,300
|
Sudanese Arabic
|
30,000,000
|
Nigerian Pidgin
|
|
Native Speakers
|
Language
|
27,779,100
|
Zulu
|
27,014,190
|
Igbo
|
25,880,630
|
Amharic
|
25,164,820
|
Northern Uzbek
|
24,615,591
|
Sindhi
|
24,587,400
|
North Levantine Ara
|
24,528,840
|
Nepali
|
24,345,750
|
Romanian
|
23,808,890
|
Tagalog
|
23,069,480
|
Dutch
|
22,400,000
|
Sa'idi Arabic
|
22,100,000
|
Gan Chinese
|
20,850,900
|
Northern Pashto
|
20,746,400
|
Magahi
|
20,009,000
|
Saraiki
|
19,183,300
|
Xhosa
|
19,092,180
|
Malay
|
17,591,230
|
Khmer
|
17,534,580
|
Afrikaans
|
17,534,580
|
Sinhala
|
16,321,530
|
Somali
|
16,300,000
|
Chhattisgarhi
|
15,942,480
|
Cebuano
|
15,655,900
|
Mesopotamian Arabic
|
15,329,040
|
Assamese
|
15,000,000
|
North-eastern Thai
|
14,359,000
|
Northern Kurdish
|
14,524,500
|
Hijazi Arabic
|
14,485,000
|
Nigerian Fulfulde
|
14,359,000
|
Bavarian
|
14,102,320
|
Bamanankan
|
25,164,750
|
South Azerbaijani
|
13,664,710
|
Northern Sotho
|
13,664,710
|
Setswana
|
13,524,520
|
Southern Sotho
|
13,386,850
|
Czech
|
13,170,460
|
Greek
|
13,000,000
|
Chittiagonian
|
12,934,060
|
Kazakh
|
12,804,900
|
Swedish
|
12,800,000
|
Deccan
|
12,574,280
|
Hungarian
|
12,486,000
|
Jula
|
12,131,225
|
Sadri
|
12,120,250
|
Kinyarwanda
|
12,000,000
|
Cameroonian Pidgin
|
11,800,000
|
Sylheti
|
11,601,100
|
South Levantine Arabic
|
11,571,600
|
Tunisian Arabic
|
11,350,000
|
Sanaani Arabic
|
|