The 10 Most Commonly Spoken Languages in the World
Almost half of the world’s population claims one of only 10 languages as their mother tongue. So what are the top 10 languages of the world? You might be surprised.
Determining what are the most spoken languages in the world is a more difficult task than you might imagine. We can say with some confidence that Mandarin, English, Spanish and Arabic will make an appearance (and roughly in what order), but there are some surprises, too! Would you have guessed that Bengali is in the top 10 most spoken languages?
One small caveat: Assigning hard data, in the form of “X million native speakers,” to any of these languages is practically impossible. What constitutes a language or a dialect is hotly contested stuff. More troubling is the fact that what we refer to simply as “Chinese” is actually a whole family of languages conveniently lumped into a single category. “Hindi” is also used as a catchall term to cover numerous dialects and sub-dialects.
We haven’t even yet acknowledged the unreliability of data sources, collected at different times by different institutions. But then again, who doesn’t love a good list? So we’ve compiled two versions for you:
1. English – 1.132 billion total speakers
2. Mandarin Chinese – 1.117 billion speakers
3. Hindi – 615 million total speakers
4. Spanish – 534 million total speakers
5. French – 280 million total speakers
6. Standard Arabic – 274 million speakers
7. Bengali – 265 million total speakers
8. Russian – 258 million total speakers
9. Portuguese – 234 million total speakers
10. Indonesian – 199 million total speakers
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