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  2. Most spoken languages, CIA, 2022; Language Percentage of world population (2022) English: 18.8% Mandarin Chinese: 13.8% Hindi: 7.5% Spanish: 6.9% French: 3.4% Arabic: 3.4% Bengali: 3.4% Russian: 3.2% Portuguese: 3.2% Urdu: 2.9%

    Language
    Family
    Branch
    First-language (l1) Speakers
    English (excl. creole languages )
    380 million
    Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...
    939 million
    Hindi (excl. Urdu )
    345 million
    Spanish (excl. creole languages )
    485 million
  3. Mar 28, 2024 · 1. Chinese1.3 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.

  4. 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.

  5. May 24, 2024 · The most spoken languages worldwide 2023. 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...

  6. Feb 15, 2020 · Today’s detailed visualization from WordTips illustrates the 100 most spoken languages in the world, the number of native speakers for each language, and the origin tree that each language has branched out from.

  7. Feb 29, 2024 · The top languages spoken in the world reflect economic trends, populated countries, and even colonial history. Here are the most spoken languages around the world as of 2023. These figures come from Ethnologue, which publishes a list of the largest languages every year.

  8. hide. (Top) Top languages by population. Ethnologue (2024) CIA World Factbook (2018 estimates) See also. References. List of languages by number of native speakers. Current distribution of human language families. Human languages ranked by their number of native speakers are as follows.

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