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  2. 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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  3. 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.

    Rank
    Language
    Total Speakers
    Native Speakers
    1
    English
    1,132M
    379M
    2
    Mandarin Chinese
    1,117M
    918M
    3
    Hindi
    615M
    341M
    4
    Spanish
    534M
    460M
  4. Mar 22, 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...

  5. 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
  6. Dec 22, 2022 · Learn about the history, origin, and features of the top 10 most popular languages in the world, from English to Arabic, and how they have spread across continents and time. Find out how they are mutually intelligible, influenced by colonization, and influenced by culture and dialects.

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  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. 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.

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