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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.

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   How many languages are spoken in the world?

   • 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 language catalog in the early 2020s.

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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 4. Spanish

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   How many people speak more than one language?

   • Billions of people around the world speak more than one language. In the case of lingua francas —languages, such as English and French, that people learn to facilitate communication across boundaries—the high number of non-native speakers often approaches or exceeds the number of native speakers.

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   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 )	Indo-European	Germanic	380 million
   Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	939 million
   Hindi (excl. Urdu )	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	345 million
   Spanish (excl. creole languages )	Indo-European	Romance	485 million

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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.

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   Mar 22, 2024 · Mar 22, 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...

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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. English (1,456,448,320)

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   Feb 22, 2018 · English is the third most spoken language in the world. Image: REUTERS/Catherine Benson. It’s worth remembering, though, that these numbers are always changing, and our knowledge of the world’s languages is constantly being refined. The Ethnologue data represents one approximation of the situation. Lonely languages.

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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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   Top languages by population Ethnologue (2024) The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first-language speakers in the 26th edition of Ethnologue published in 2023.