Top 10
Widely Spoken Languages
in the World
Mandarin
Chinese tops the list of most popular world languages, with over a billion
speakers. English trails in third place, with just over 320 million speakers.
This data includes all speakers of the languages, not only native speakers.
|
Language
|
Approx. number of speakers
|
|
1. Chinese (Mandarin)
|
1,213,000,000
|
|
2. Spanish
|
329,000,000
|
|
3. English
|
328,000,000
|
|
4. Arabic
|
221,000,000
|
|
5. Hindi
|
182,000,000
|
|
6. Bengali
|
181,000,000
|
|
7. Portuguese
|
178,000,000
|
|
8. Russian
|
144,000,000
|
|
9. Japanese
|
122,000,000
|
|
10. German
|
90,000,000
|
Source: Ethnologue, 16th Edition.
Information Please® Database, © 2012
Pearson Education, Inc.
Great to know three of them is spoken in The Subcontinent.
ReplyDeleteCan't trust these lists.
ReplyDelete" English trails in third place, with just over 320 million speakers. This data includes all speakers of the languages, not only native speakers."
That is simply the population of the USA. The official working language of "The Commonwealth of Nations" Is English, has a population of 2.4 billion and consists of 52 nations. Im not saying every 2.4 billion people speak English but...
WOW three of the ten are spoken in India :)
ReplyDeleteI thought french was very widely spoken.
ReplyDeleteHEY HINDI IS AT 4
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