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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.
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.
Dec 11, 2020 · According to Ethnologue, Chinese (and all of its varieties such as Mandarin and Wu) is by far the most spoken language across the world with 1.31 billion speakers. That's approximately 16 percent...
