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Mar 22, 2024 · The most spoken languages worldwide 2023. Published by. Einar H. Dyvik , Mar 22, 2024. In 2023, there were around 1.5 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second...
Feb 9, 2024 · Total speakers: 1.4+ billion. According to Ethnologue, English is the most-spoken language in the world including native and non-native speakers. Like Latin or Greek at the time, English has become the world's common language. It is the default language in international business, tourism, technology, and much more.
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%
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)
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.
Sep 16, 2023 · As the graph above shows, English is clearly the most spoken language in the world. Mandarin and Hindi follow English in terms of total speakers. However, Mandarin actually has more native speakers than English.
Feb 29, 2024 · The 12 Most Spoken Languages on Earth. English was born in the United Kingdom but today belongs to the modern world as the main international language of business and politics. That’s why it’s not very surprising to find English as the world’s most spoken language, with 1.5 billion speakers as of 2023.
