List of Languages by total number of Speakers
Posted on: 7/17/2017 01:18:00 PM
By: Team RIJADEJA.com
| Rank |
Language |
Family |
Total Speakers |
| 1 |
Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese) |
Sino-Tibetan, Chinese |
1,090 million |
| 2 |
English |
Indo-European, Germanic |
942 million |
| 3 |
Spanish |
Indo-European, Romance |
570 million |
| 4 |
Arabic |
Afro-Asiatic, Semitic |
385 million |
| 5 |
Hindi [Note 1] |
Indo-European, Indo-Aryan |
380 million |
| 6 |
Russian |
Indo-European, Slavic |
260 million |
| 7 |
Bengali |
Indo-European, Indo-Aryan |
259 million |
| 8 |
Portuguese |
Indo-European, Romance |
250 million |
| 9 |
Malay (incl. Indonesian and Malaysian) |
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian |
250 million |
| 10 |
French |
Indo-European, Romance |
220 million[4] |
| 11 |
German |
Indo-European, Germanic |
210 million |
| 12 |
Urdu |
Indo-European, Indo-Aryan |
162 million |
| 13 |
Punjabi |
Indo-European, Indo-Aryan |
146 million |
| 14 |
Japanese |
Japonic |
130 million |
| 15 |
Persian (Farsi) |
Indo-European, Iranian |
110 million[7] |
| 16 |
Swahili |
Niger–Congo language, Coastal Tanzanian, Bantu |
98 million |
| 17 |
Tamil (incl. Tamil languages) |
Dravidian |
92 million |
| 18 |
Italian |
Indo-European, Romance |
85 million |
| 19 |
Javanese |
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian |
84 million |
| 20 |
Telugu |
Dravidian |
79 million |
| 21 |
Korean |
Koreanic |
77 million |
| 22 |
Wu Chinese (incl. Shanghainese) |
Sino-Tibetan, Chinese |
77 million |
| 23 |
Marathi |
Indo-European, Indo-Aryan |
75 million |
| 24 |
Turkish |
Turkic, Oghuz |
71 million |
| 25 |
Vietnamese |
Austroasiatic, Viet–Muong |
78 million |
| 26 |
Yue Chinese (incl. Cantonese) |
Sino-Tibetan, Chinese |
62 million |
