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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_languages_by_totalList of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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   Most spoken languages, Ethnologue, 2023; Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.077 billion: 1.456 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 939 million

   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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2. www.babbel.com › en › magazineThe 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World - Babbel.com

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   Mar 28, 2024 · 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.

3. www.statista.com › statistics › 266808The most spoken languages worldwide 2023 | Statista

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   Mar 22, 2024 · Find out how many people speak English, Mandarin, Hindi and other languages globally and in the United States. See the ranking of the most widespread languages by speakers in millions and the percentage of people speaking a language other than English at home.

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   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. [7] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing all their respective varieties, such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and ...

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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.

   Languages by number of native speakers | List, Top, & Most Spoken

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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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   Which languages do native speakers learn the most?

   • Here, Spanish comes in strong second for native speakers with 460 million, considering it’s well-used across Latin America. The Indian languages of Hindi and Bengali cap off the top five by native speakers as well. These are the biggest languages people learn growing up, but what about the ones they pick up later in life?

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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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   Learn about the 25 most-spoken languages in the world, based on data from the Ethnologue language catalog. Find out how many native and non-native speakers there are for each language, and how to distinguish between varieties of Arabic, Chinese, and Malay.

7. www.visualcapitalist.com › 100-most-spokeRanked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Worldwide

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   Feb 15, 2020 · Here are the language origins of the 100 most spoken languages: Indo-European languages have the widest spread worldwide. According to Ethnologue, the language family contains over 3 billion speakers in total. Interestingly, there are actually 1,526 Niger-Congo languages altogether, though only 12 are represented here.

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   Learn about the 25 languages with the most native speakers in the world, based on data from the Ethnologue language catalog. Find out how Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic, and Hindi rank among the top languages.