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The most spoken languages in the world

Here is a table with the most spoken languages on Earth. Each language includes the number of people for whom it is their first language, as well as those for whom it is the second language. We only listed languages with over 50 million users.

We note that English has largely won the battle for more than 60-70 years. However with the coming demographics of Africa, certain languages such as French could take the lead.

This information is from November 2021.


Language	Total people speaking the language
English	1.348 billion
Mandarin Chinese	1.120 billion
Hindi	600 million
Spanish	543 million
Standard Arabic	274 million
Bengali	268 million
French	267 million
Russian	258 million
Portuguese	258 million
Urdu	230 million
Indonesian	199 million
Standard German	135 million
Japanese	126 million
Marathi	99 million
Telugu	96 million
Turkish	88 million
Tamil	85.5 million
Yue Chinese	85 million
Wu Chinese	82 million
Korean	82 million
Vietnamese	77 million
Hausa	75 million
Iranian Persian	74 million
Egyptian Spoken Arabic	70 million
Swahili	69 million
Javanese	68 million
Italian	68 million
Western Punjabi	65 million
Gujarati	62 million
Thai	61 million
Kannada	59 million
Amharic	57 million
Bhojpuri	52.14 million
Eastern Punjabi	52 million

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