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  1. Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect.

    Language
    Family
    Branch
    First-language (l1) Speakers
    English (excl. creole languages)
    380 million
    Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...
    941 million
    Hindi (excl. Urdu)
    345 million
    Spanish (excl. creole languages)
    486 million
  2. Jul 4, 2024 · Einar H. Dyvik, Jul 4, 2024. In 2023, there were around 1.5 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.1 billion Mandarin Chinese ...

  3. Oct 15, 2020 · A total of 585 million people speak Spanish in the world, 7.5% of the world’s population. Of these, 489 million – six million more than a year ago – are native Spanish speakers. These data confirm the positive evolution of Spanish in the last decade, in which potential users have grown more than 30% and study it 60% more than in 2010.

  4. Nov 16, 2020 · In the last decade, the number of Spanish speakers worldwide has increased by 30%, largely as a result of population growth in Latin America, and the number of learners of Spanish as a second language has grown by 60%, according to the 2020 edition of Spanish in the World, published by the Instituto Cervantes. The yearbook records that more than 585 million people (7.5% of the world’s ...

  5. Dec 11, 2020 · This chart shows the estimated number of first-language speakers worldwide in 2019. ... Monthly electricity prices in selected EU countries 2020-2024. ... Share of people speaking foreign ...

  6. English, for instance, has fewer than 400 million native speakers, but more than 1 billion non-native speakers. By contrast, Chinese, which has the highest number of native speakers among the world’s languages, has relatively few non-native speakers outside China. Similarly, some languages, such as Javanese and Italian, are among the 25 most ...

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  8. Feb 9, 2022 · Spanish-Speaking World Population Statistics. According to the latest United Nations’ estimate done in early 2022, the world’s population is 7.8 billion. The Cervantes Institute says that more than 572 million people spoke Spanish in 2017, and 477 million of them were native Spanish speakers! Additionally, the Institute added that between ...

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