What are the most spoken languages on earth?
Language
First language speakers
Total speakers including second language users
Range estimate
Midpoint number
Range estimate
Midpoint number
Chinese (Mandarin)
800-1100
950
856-1120
988
English
315-400
358
455-508
482
Spanish
266-400
333
320-472
396
Hindi
250-385
318
333-487
410
Arabic
180-210
195
207-260
233
Bangla (Bengali)
180-190
185
189-250
220
Russian
160-180
170
277-320
299
Portuguese
160-180
170
188-200
194
Japanese
120-125
123
120-133
127
German
98-100
99
107-125
116
French
72-90
81
125-265
195
All figures are in millions of people
Major languages
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Abron
|
Adja
|
Adyghe
|
Afar
|
Afrikaans
|
Aguaruno
|
Aimaq
|
Akan
|
Albanian
|
Alsatian
|
Amharic
|
Arabic
|
Arakanese
|
Armenian
|
Assamese
|
Assyrian
|
Aymara
|
Azerbaijani
|
Azeri
Bahasa
|
Balcanta
|
Baluchi
|
Bambara
|
Banda
|
Bangala
|
Bangla
|
Bariba
|
Basque
|
Bassa
|
Baule
|
Bedawi
|
Bemba
|
Bengali
|
Bete
|
Bhojpuri
|
Bicolano
|
Bissa
|
Bosnian
|
Breton
|
Bribri
|
Bulgarian
|
Buriat
|
Burmese
|
Byelorussian
Cabecar
|
Cakchiquel
|
Calo
|
Campa
|
Cantonese
|
Catalan
|
Cebuano
|
Chachi
|
Cham
|
Chaouia
|
Chichewa
|
Chiga
|
Chilupi
|
Chinese
|
Chiquitano
|
Colorado
|
Creole-English
|
Creole-French
|
Creole
|
Crioulo
|
Croatian
|
Czech
Dan
|
Danish
|
Dari
|
Daza
|
Dinka
|
Dioula
|
Domari
|
Douala
|
Dutch
|
Dzongkha
Embera
|
English
|
Estonian
|
Ewe
|
Ewondo
|
Fang
|
Faroese
|
Farsi
|
Finnish
|
Fon
|
French
|
Frisian
|
Fulfulde
|
Fur
Ga
|
Gabre
|
Gaelic
|
Gagauz
|
Galician
|
Ganda
|
Garifuna
|
Gbaya
|
Gen
|
Georgian
|
German
|
Gogo
|
Greek
|
Greenlandic
|
Guaragigna
|
Guarani
|
Gujarati
|
Gulay
|
Gurma
|
Gurtu
Hakka
|
Haus
|
Haya
|
Hazaragi
|
Hebrew
|
Hindi
|
Hmong
|
Huilliche
|
Hungarian
Igbo
|
Ilocano
|
Indonesian
|
Italian
Japanese
|
Javanese
|
Jerba
|
Jiddu
|
Jola
|
Jula
Kabiye
|
Kabyle
|
Kalanga
|
Kalenjin
|
Kalmyk
|
Kamba
|
Kannada
|
Karakalpak
|
Karen
|
Kari%f1a
|
Kashmiri
|
Kashubian
|
Kazakh
|
Kebumtamp
|
Kekchi
|
Ketchi
|
Kgalagadi
|
Khmer
|
Khmu
|
Kikuyu
|
Kinyarwanda
|
Kirghiz
|
Kirmanjki
|
Kissi
|
Kituba
|
Kongo
|
Konkani
|
Korean
|
Kpele
|
Kpelle
|
Kunama
|
Kuranko
|
Kurdish
Lalabisa
|
Lao
|
Latvian
|
Ligurian
|
Limba
|
Lingala
|
Lithuanian
|
Lituanian
|
Loanda
|
Lomwe
|
Lozi
|
Luba
|
Luo
|
Luxembourgeois
|
Luyia
Maay
|
Maba
|
Macedo Rom
|
Macedonian
|
Madura
|
Maithali
|
Makhuwa
|
Malagasy
|
Malay
|
Malayalan
|
Malinke
|
Mam
|
Mandarin
|
Mandinka
|
Mandyak
|
Maninka
|
Manipuri
|
Mano
|
Manza
|
Maori
|
Mapuche
|
Mapudungun
|
Marathi
|
Maya
|
Mbere
|
Mbosi
|
Mbundu
|
Mehri
|
Mende
|
Min
|
Min Nan
|
Minang
|
Mingrelian
|
Mirandesa
|
Miskito
|
Mixteco
|
Moba
|
Moldovan
|
Mongolian
|
Moore
|
Morisyen
|
Motu
|
Munukutuba
|
Muong
|
Myene
Nahuat
|
Nahuatl
|
Nauruan
|
Ndebele
|
Neapolitan
|
Nefusi
|
Nepalese
|
Nepali
|
Ngoni
|
Niuean
|
Niyanja
|
Norwegian
|
Nubian
|
Nuer
|
Nung
|
Nyankore
Occitan
|
Oriya
|
Oromigna
Paez
|
Pai
|
Papiamcutu
|
Pashto
|
Pemon
|
Pidgin-English
|
Piemontese
|
Polish
|
Portuguese
|
Pular
|
Punjabi
Quechua
|
Quiche
Rama
|
Rapa Nui
|
Romani
|
Romanian
|
Rundi
|
Russian
|
Ruthenian
Saami
|
Saho
|
Samoan
|
Sango
|
Sanskrit
|
Sara
|
Scharchup
|
Sena
|
Senoufo
|
Sepedi
|
Serbian
|
Serbo-Croatian
|
Serere
|
Sesotho
|
Setswana
|
Shan
|
Shona
|
Shuar
|
Sindhi
|
Sinhala
|
Sira
|
Siswati
|
Slovak
|
Slovenian
|
So
|
Soga
|
Somali
|
Songhai
|
Soninke
|
Soqotri
|
Spanish
|
Sumo
|
Susu
|
Swahili
|
Swedish
|
Sylheti
Tachelhit
|
Tagalog
|
Tai
|
Tajik
|
Tamajak
|
Tamang
|
Tamashek
|
Tamazight
|
Tamil
|
Tarifit
|
Tatar
|
Techelhit
|
Teke
|
Telugu
|
Tem
|
Thai
|
Tharu
|
Themne
|
Tigrina
|
Tigrinya
|
Toba
|
Tokelauan
|
Tonga
|
Tshivenda
|
Tsonga
|
Tumbuka
|
Turkish
|
Turkmen
|
Tzutujil
Uigur
|
Ukranian
|
Umbundu
|
Urdu
|
Uzbek
Valencian
|
Venetian
|
Vietnamese
Warao
|
Waray
|
Wayuu
|
We
|
Welsh
|
Wolof
|
Wuluf
Xhosa
|
Xiang
|
Xitsonga
Yao
|
Yiddish
|
Yoruba
Zapoteco
|
Zarma
|
Zaza
|
Zuara
|
Zulu
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