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   What is the most spoken language in the world?

   • 1. Chinese — 1.3 Billion Native Speakers Numbers vary widely — Ethnologue puts the number of native speakers at 1.3 billion native speakers, roughly 900 million of whom speak Mandarin — but there’s no doubt it’s the most spoken language in the world. If you wish to learn a language that one in six people in the world speak, this is the one for you.

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   What languages are spoken in the world?

   • 1. English (1.5 billion speakers) 2. Mandarin Chinese (1.1 billion speakers) 3. Hindi (602.2 million speakers) 4. Spanish (550 million speakers) 5. French (274.1 million speakers) 6. Standard Arabic (274 million speakers) 7. Bengali (272.7 million speakers) 8. Russian (258.2 million speakers) 9. Portuguese (257.7 million speakers) 10.

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   Which country has the most official languages?

   • Bolivia is the country with the most official languages with 37, but only one of those — Spanish — makes the top 10 list here, while the rest are mostly indigenous languages protected by official status. 1. English 1.515 billion total speakers 2. Mandarin Chinese 1.140 billion total speakers 3. Hindi 609 million total speakers

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   How are human languages ranked?

   • For first- and second-language speakers, see List of languages by total number of speakers. Human languages ranked by their number of native speakers are as follows. All such rankings should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum.

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   Which language has the highest number of native speakers?

   • The variety of Arabic with the highest number of native speakers, Egyptian Arabic, would rank below Tamil (18th) if the Arabic varieties were treated as distinct languages. By contrast, Hindi and Urdu (which rank 5th and 20th, respectively) are mutually intelligible in speech despite having differing writing systems and literary traditions.

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   Which languages have 50 million speakers?

   • Ethnologue lists the following languages as having 50 million or more total speakers. [ 4 ] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing several varieties, such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese.

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   Mar 28, 2024 · 1. Chinese — 1.3 Billion Native Speakers. Numbers vary widely — Ethnologue puts the number of native speakers at 1.3 billion native speakers, roughly 900 million of whom speak Mandarin — but there’s no doubt it’s the most spoken language in the world.

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   The World Factbook, produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), estimates the ten most spoken languages (L1 + L2) in 2022 as follows: [7]

   Language	Family	Branch	First-language (l1) Speakers
   English (excl. creole languages)	Indo-European	Germanic	380 million
   Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	941 million
   Hindi (excl. Urdu)	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	345 million
   Spanish (excl. creole languages)	Indo-European	Romance	486 million

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   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 speakers at the time of ...

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   Aug 5, 2023 · The most common languages in the world include English, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, French, Standard Arabic and more—all with more than 200 million speakers. Read on to find out about the top 20 languages globally, complete with where they’re spoken and fun facts about their culture and history!

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   Below is a list of the 25 languages with the highest number of total speakers, according to data from the Ethnologue language catalog in the early 2020s. For a list of languages that counts only the number of native speakers, see languages by number of native speakers.

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   List of languages by number of native speakers. Human languages ranked by their number of native speakers are as follows. All such rankings should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. [1] For example, a language is often defined as a ...

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    The world’s 8 billion inhabitants speak thousands of languages, but most of them are spoken by small populations. About 5 billion people are native speakers of just 25 languages. Below is a list of the 25 languages with the highest number of native speakers, according to data from the Ethnologue.