Language
|
Number of Total Speakers
|
English
|
1,348,000,000
|
Mandarin
|
1,117,000,000
|
Hindustani (incl. Urdu)
|
845,000,000
|
Spanish
|
572,000,000
|
Arabic (incl. dialects)
|
422,000,000
|
French
|
274,000,000
|
Portuguese
|
270,000,000
|
|
Language
|
Number of Total Speakers
|
Bengali
|
267,000,000
|
Russian
|
258,000,000
|
Indonesian (excl. Malay)
|
199,000,000
|
Standard German
|
135,000,000
|
Japanese
|
128,000,000
|
Marathi
|
95,000,000
|
Telugu
|
94,000,000
|
|
Language
|
Number of Total Speakers
|
Turkish
|
88,000,000
|
Yue Chinese (incl. Cantonese)
|
84,000,000
|
Tamil
|
83,000,000
|
Korean
|
80,500,000
|
Wu Chinese (incl. Shanghainese)
|
80,000,000
|
Vietnamese
|
76,000,000
|
|