List of most spoken languages in the world

Order by language name Order by population

Mandarin (entire branch)	955,000,000
Spanish	405,000,000
English	360,000,000
Hindi	310,000,000
Arabic	295,000,000
Portuguese	215,000,000
Bengali	205,000,000
Russian	155,000,000
Japanese	125,000,000
Punjabi	100,000,000
German	89,000,000
Javanese	82,000,000
Wu (inc. Shanghainese)	80,000,000
Malay (inc. Malaysian and Indonesian)	77,000,000
Telugu	76,000,000
Vietnamese	76,000,000
Korean	76,000,000
French	75,000,000
Marathi	73,000,000
Tamil	70,000,000
Urdu	66,000,000
Turkish	63,000,000
Italian	59,000,000
Yue (incl. Cantonese)	59,000,000
Thai (excl. Lao)	56,000,000
Gujarati	49,000,000
Jin	48,000,000
Southern Min (incl. Fujianese/Hokkien)	47,000,000
Persian	45,000,000
Polish	40,000,000
Pashto	39,000,000
Kannada	38,000,000
Xiang (Hunnanese)	38,000,000
Malayalam	38,000,000
Sundanese	38,000,000
Hausa	34,000,000
Odia (Oriya)	33,000,000
Burmese	33,000,000
Hakka	31,000,000
Ukrainian	30,000,000
Bhojpuri	29,000,000
Tagalog/Filipino	28,000,000
Yoruba	28,000,000
Maithili	27,000,000
Uzbek	26,000,000
Sindhi	26,000,000
Amharic	25,000,000
Fula	24,000,000
Romanian	24,000,000
Oromo	24,000,000
Igbo	24,000,000
Azerbaijani	23,000,000
Awadhi	22,000,000
Gan Chinese	22,000,000
Cebuano (Visayan)	21,000,000
Dutch	21,000,000
Kurdish	21,000,000
Serbo-Croatian	19,000,000
Malagasy	18,000,000
Saraiki	17,000,000
Nepali	17,000,000
Sinhalese	16,000,000
Chittagonian	16,000,000
Zhuang	16,000,000
Khmer	16,000,000
Turkmen	16,000,000
Assamese	15,000,000
Madurese	15,000,000
Somali	15,000,000
Marwari	14,000,000
Magahi	14,000,000
Haryanvi	14,000,000
Hungarian	13,000,000
Chhattisgarhi	12,000,000
Greek	12,000,000
Chewa	12,000,000
Deccan	11,000,000
Akan	11,000,000
Kazakh	11,000,000
Northern Min	10,900,000
Sylheti	10,700,000
Zulu	10,400,000
Czech	10,000,000
Kinyarwanda	9,800,000
Dhundhari	9,600,000
Haitian Creole	9,600,000
Eastern Min	9,500,000
Ilocano	9,100,000
Quechua	8,900,000
Kirundi	8,800,000
Swedish	8,700,000
Hmong	8,400,000
Shona	8,300,000
Uyghur	8,200,000
Hiligaynon/Ilonggo (Visayan)	8,200,000
Mossi	7,600,000
Xhosa	7,600,000
Belarusian	7,600,000
Balochi	7,600,000
Konkani	7,400,000

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