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1. 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.

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2. www.visualcapitalist.com › 100-most-spokeRanked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Around the World

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   Feb 15, 2020 · Indo-European. 10. Indonesian. 199 million. Austronesian. However, this is only one piece in the full fabric of languages. The metrics for native speakers tell a slightly different tale, as Mandarin Chinese shoots up to 918 million —almost 2.5x that of English native speakers. Rank. Language.

   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

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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.

   The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World - Babbel.com

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   How many languages are there in the world?

   • 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. How Do You Define A Language?

   Ranked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Worldwide - Visual Capitalist

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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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4. www.nationsonline.org › oneworld › languagesLanguages of the World - A Nations Online Project

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   3. 980 million. Note: Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world if you count only native speakers (L1*). Varieties of Chinese are Mandarin or Putonghua (the official language in mainland China), Jin, Wu, Hui, Gan, Xiang (Hunanese), Min (Hokkien), Hakka, Yue (Cantonese) and Ping.

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

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   For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties, and so ...

   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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7. www.britannica.com › topic › languages-by-totallanguages by total number of speakers - Encyclopedia Britannica

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   English, for instance, has fewer than 400 million native speakers, but more than 1 billion non-native speakers. By contrast, Chinese, which has the highest number of native speakers among the world’s languages, has relatively few non-native speakers outside China. Similarly, some languages, such as Javanese and Italian, are among the 25 most ...

8. www.worldatlas.com › society › the-10-most-spokenThe 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World - WorldAtlas

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   Dec 22, 2022 · Although it is one of the most difficult languages to learn, Russian has a quality and sound to it that make it truly unique whenever it is heard by foreign listeners. 9. Portuguese – 257.7 Million Speakers. Toll signs on a highway in Brazil written in Portuguese: "Toll fees: Car and utility 11.30 reais.

9. www.cia.gov › the-world-factbook › fieldLanguages - The World Factbook

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   The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information. note 1: percentages sum to more than 100% because many people are multilingual. note 2: Uzbeki, Turkmani, Pashaie, Nuristani, Balochi, and Pamiri are the third official languages in areas where the majority speaks them.