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What are the most spoken languages on earth?
| Language | First language speakers | Total speakers including second language users |
| | Range estimate | Midpoint number | Range estimate | Midpoint number |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | 800-1100 | 950 | 856-1120 | 988 |
| English | 315-400 | 358 | 455-508 | 482 |
| Spanish | 266-400 | 333 | 320-472 | 396 |
| Hindi | 250-385 | 318 | 333-487 | 410 |
| Arabic | 180-210 | 195 | 207-260 | 233 |
| Bangla (Bengali) | 180-190 | 185 | 189-250 | 220 |
| Russian | 160-180 | 170 | 277-320 | 299 |
| Portuguese | 160-180 | 170 | 188-200 | 194 |
| Japanese | 120-125 | 123 | 120-133 | 127 |
| German | 98-100 | 99 | 107-125 | 116 |
| French | 72-90 | 81 | 125-265 | 195 |
All figures are in millions of people
Major languages:
Abron |
Adja |
Adyghe |
Afar |
Afrikaans |
Aguaruno |
Aimaq |
Akan |
Albanian |
Alsatian |
Amharic |
Arabic |
Arakanese |
Armenian |
Assamese |
Assyrian |
Aymara |
Azerbaijani |
Azeri
Bahasa |
Balcanta |
Baluchi |
Bambara |
Banda |
Bangala |
Bangla |
Bariba |
Basque |
Bassa |
Baule |
Bedawi |
Bemba |
Bengali |
Bete |
Bhojpuri |
Bicolano |
Bissa |
Bosnian |
Breton |
Bribri |
Bulgarian |
Buriat |
Burmese |
Byelorussian
Cabecar |
Cakchiquel |
Calo |
Campa |
Cantonese |
Catalan |
Cebuano |
Chachi |
Cham |
Chaouia |
Chichewa |
Chiga |
Chilupi |
Chinese |
Chiquitano |
Colorado |
Creole-English |
Creole-French |
Creole |
Crioulo |
Croatian |
Czech
Dan |
Danish |
Dari |
Daza |
Dinka |
Dioula |
Domari |
Douala |
Dutch |
Dzongkha
Embera |
English |
Estonian |
Ewe |
Ewondo |
Fang |
Faroese |
Farsi |
Finnish |
Fon |
French |
Frisian |
Fulfulde |
Fur
Ga |
Gabre |
Gaelic |
Gagauz |
Galician |
Ganda |
Garifuna |
Gbaya |
Gen |
Georgian |
German |
Gogo |
Greek |
Greenlandic |
Guaragigna |
Guarani |
Gujarati |
Gulay |
Gurma |
Gurtu
Hakka |
Haus |
Haya |
Hazaragi |
Hebrew |
Hindi |
Hmong |
Huilliche |
Hungarian
Igbo |
Ilocano |
Indonesian |
Italian
Japanese |
Javanese |
Jerba |
Jiddu |
Jola |
Jula
Kabiye |
Kabyle |
Kalanga |
Kalenjin |
Kalmyk |
Kamba |
Kannada |
Karakalpak |
Karen |
Kari%f1a |
Kashmiri |
Kashubian |
Kazakh |
Kebumtamp |
Kekchi |
Ketchi |
Kgalagadi |
Khmer |
Khmu |
Kikuyu |
Kinyarwanda |
Kirghiz |
Kirmanjki |
Kissi |
Kituba |
Kongo |
Konkani |
Korean |
Kpele |
Kpelle |
Kunama |
Kuranko |
Kurdish
Lalabisa |
Lao |
Latvian |
Ligurian |
Limba |
Lingala |
Lithuanian |
Lituanian |
Loanda |
Lomwe |
Lozi |
Luba |
Luo |
Luxembourgeois |
Luyia
Maay |
Maba |
Macedo Rom |
Macedonian |
Madura |
Maithali |
Makhuwa |
Malagasy |
Malay |
Malayalan |
Malinke |
Mam |
Mandarin |
Mandinka |
Mandyak |
Maninka |
Manipuri |
Mano |
Manza |
Maori |
Mapuche |
Mapudungun |
Marathi |
Maya |
Mbere |
Mbosi |
Mbundu |
Mehri |
Mende |
Min |
Min Nan |
Minang |
Mingrelian |
Mirandesa |
Miskito |
Mixteco |
Moba |
Moldovan |
Mongolian |
Moore |
Morisyen |
Motu |
Munukutuba |
Muong |
Myene
Nahuat |
Nahuatl |
Nauruan |
Ndebele |
Neapolitan |
Nefusi |
Nepalese |
Nepali |
Ngoni |
Niuean |
Niyanja |
Norwegian |
Nubian |
Nuer |
Nung |
Nyankore
Occitan |
Oriya |
Oromigna
Paez |
Pai |
Papiamcutu |
Pashto |
Pemon |
Pidgin-English |
Piemontese |
Polish |
Portuguese |
Pular |
Punjabi
Quechua |
Quiche
Rama |
Rapa Nui |
Romani |
Romanian |
Rundi |
Russian |
Ruthenian
Saami |
Saho |
Samoan |
Sango |
Sanskrit |
Sara |
Scharchup |
Sena |
Senoufo |
Sepedi |
Serbian |
Serbo-Croatian |
Serere |
Sesotho |
Setswana |
Shan |
Shona |
Shuar |
Sindhi |
Sinhala |
Sira |
Siswati |
Slovak |
Slovenian |
So |
Soga |
Somali |
Songhai |
Soninke |
Soqotri |
Spanish |
Sumo |
Susu |
Swahili |
Swedish |
Sylheti
Tachelhit |
Tagalog |
Tai |
Tajik |
Tamajak |
Tamang |
Tamashek |
Tamazight |
Tamil |
Tarifit |
Tatar |
Techelhit |
Teke |
Telugu |
Tem |
Thai |
Tharu |
Themne |
Tigrina |
Tigrinya |
Toba |
Tokelauan |
Tonga |
Tshivenda |
Tsonga |
Tumbuka |
Turkish |
Turkmen |
Tzutujil
Uigur |
Ukranian |
Umbundu |
Urdu |
Uzbek
Valencian |
Venetian |
Vietnamese
Warao |
Waray |
Wayuu |
We |
Welsh |
Wolof |
Wuluf
Xhosa |
Xiang |
Xitsonga
Yao |
Yiddish |
Yoruba
Zapoteco |
Zarma |
Zaza |
Zuara |
Zulu
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All data is derived from UNESCO.
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