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Top 20 Languages by Total Number of Speakers

Try to guess which languages have the greatest number of total speakers according to wikipedia. Hindi and Urdu are considered the same language by this quiz because they are mutually intelligible.
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Last updated: December 6, 2021
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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
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