List Of Most Spoken Languages In The World

THE TOP 10 MOST WIDELY USED LANGUAGES WORLDWIDE ARE LISTED BELOW

Over 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, with some of the most popular ones including

According to the number of native speakers, these are the top 10 languages in the world:

Rank	Language	Number of Speakers (in million)
1	Mandarin Chinese	1,100
2	Spanish	460
3	English	379
4	Arabic	295
5	Hindi/Urdu	260
6	Bengali	242
7	Russian	258
8	Portuguese	234
9	Indonesian/Malay	200
10	French	77

1. The official language of China, Mandarin Chinese is spoken by 1.1 billion people worldwide and is frequently utilised in trade and business.

2. The official language of 21 countries and the second most frequently spoken language in the world is Spanish (460 million speakers).

3. The most common language used in international communication and a second language that is taught widely is English (379 million speakers).

4. Arabic is an important language in the Muslim world with 295 million speakers and is the official language of 26 nations.

5. The official language of India and Pakistan with 260 million native speakers, Hindi/Urdu is also widely used throughout South Asia.

6. Bengali is an official language in Bangladesh and is widely used in India (242 million speakers).

7. Russian is an official language in Russia and is extensively spoken in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (258 million speakers).

8. Portuguese is an official language in Portugal, Brazil, and numerous African nations with 234 million speakers.

9. Indonesian/Malay (200 million speakers) is the fourth most populous nation in the world and its official language.

10 French (77 million speakers) is a commonly used international diplomatic language and an official language in 29 nations.

Note that this list only includes native speakers and may not include all those who speak these languages as a second or foreign language.

WORLD LANGUAGES LIST

A

Abkhaz

Afrikaans

Albanian

Amharic

Arabic

Armenian

Assamese

B

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Berber

Bhojpuri

Bosnian

Bulgarian

Burmese

C

Cantonese Chinese

Catalan

Chichewa

Chinese

Chipewyan

Cree

Croatian

Czech

D

Danish

Dutch

E

English

Estonian

F

Faroese

Fijian

Filipino

Finnish

French

Frisian

Fula

G

Gaelic

Gan

Georgian

German

Greek

Gujarati

H

Haitian Creole

Hakka

Hausa

Hawaiian

Hebrew

Hindi

Hmong

Hungarian

J

Japanese

Javanese

I

Ibibio

Icelandic

Igbo

Inuinnaqtun

Inuktitut

Irish

Italian

K

Kannada

Kashmiri

Kazakh

Khmer

Korean

Kurdish

Kyrgyz

L

Lao

Latvian

Lithuanian

Lugandan

Luxembourgish

M

Macedonian

Madurese

Maithili

Malagasy

Malay (or Maysian)

Malayalam

Maltese

Mandarin Chinese

Manx Gaelic

Maori

Marathi

Mayan

Min

Moldovian

Mongolian

Montenegran

N

Ndebele

Nepali

Northern Sotho

Norwegian

O

Oriya

Oromo

Ossetian

P

Pashto

Persian

Polish

Portuguese

Punjabi

Q

Quechua

R

Romanian

Russian

S

Sami

Sanskrit

Serbian

Shona

Sign Language 

Sindhi

Sinhala

Slovak

Slovene

Somali

Sotho

Spanish

Sranan Tongo

Sunda

Swahili

Swati

Swedish

T

Tagalog

Tahitian

Tajik

Tamil

Telugu

Tetum

Thai

Tibetan

Tok Pisin

Tsonga

Turkish

Turkmen

Twi

U

Ukrainian

Urdu

Uzbek

V

Venda

Vietnamese

W

Welsh

Wu

X

Xhosa

Xiang

Y

Yiddish

Yoruba

Yue

Z

Zhuang

Zulu