Languages spoken Number countries
The table below shows 33 Most spoken languages in World, sorted by total number of speakers. Data comes from Ethnologue. These numbers include people who are native speakers of the language as well as people who have learned the language. Scroll down to learn more about each language.
| Language | total number of speakers |
| English | 1,452,000,000 |
| Mandarin Chinese | 1,118,000,000 |
| Hindi | 602,200,000 |
| Spanish | 548,300,000 |
| French | 274,100,000 |
| modern standard arabic | 274,000,000 |
| Bengali | 272,700,000 |
| Russian | 258,200,000 |
| Portuguese | 257,700,000 |
| Urdu | 231,300,000 |
| Indonesian | 199,000,000 |
| German | 134,600,000 |
| Japani | 125,400,000 |
| nigerian pidgin | 120,700,000 |
| Marathi | 99,100,000 |
| Telugu | 95,700,000 |
| Türkiye | 88,100,000 |
| tamil | 86,400,000 |
| u sugar | 85,600,000 |
| vietnamese | 85,300,000 |
| Tagalog | 82,300,000 |
| woo sugar | 81,800,000 |
| Korean | 81,700,000 |
| Iranian Persian (Persian) | 77,400,000 |
| Hausa | 77,100,000 |
| Egyptian spoken Arabic | 74,800,000 |
| swahili | 71,400,000 |
| javanese | 68,300,000 |
| Italian | 67,900,000 |
| western punjabi | 66,400,000 |
| Kannada | 64,000,000 |
| Gujarati | 62,000,000 |
| Thai | 60,700,000 |