Most Spoken Languages

Name the languages that have the largest numbers of total speakers (first and second language speakers alike).
Source: Ethnologue 2019
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Total Speakers
% Native Speakers
Answer
1.132 billion
33.4%
English
1.116 billion
82.2%
Mandarin
615.4 million
55.4%
Hindi
534.3 million
86.1%
Spanish
279.8 million
27.6%
French
273.9 million
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Standard Arabic
265.0 million
86.2%
Bengali
258.2 million
59.5%
Russian
234.1 million
94.3%
Portuguese
198.7 million
21.8%
Indonesian
170.2 million
40.3%
Urdu
132.1 million
57,5%
German
128.3 million
99.9%
Japanese
98.3 million
16.3%
Swahili
95.3 million
87.2%
Marathi
93.0 million
88.2%
Telugu
92.7 million
100%
Western Punjabi
Total Speakers
% Native Speakers
Answer
81.5 million
99.9%
Wu
80.9 million
92.7%
Tamil
79.7 million
99.6%
Turkish
77.2 million
100%
Korean
76.9 million
98.7%
Vietnamese
73.5 million
99.5%
Yue (Cantonese)
68.2 million
100%
Javanese
67.8 million
95.6%
Italian
64.6 million
100%
Egyptian Arabic
63.4 million
69.2%
Hausa
60.6 million
34.0%
Thai
60.5 million
93.2%
Gujarati
56.4 million
77.1%
Kannada
52.7 million
100%
Persian
52.4 million
99.6%
Bhojpuri
50.4 million
99.2%
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