Global Linguistic Leaders: An Examination of the World's Most Spoken Languages

Most Spoken Languages April 2023

Languages No. of Speakers
1 English 1452000000
2 Mandarin Chinese 1118000000
3 Hindi 602200000
4 Spanish 548300000
5 French 274100000
6 Standard Arabic 274000000
7 Bengali 272700000
8 Russian 258200000
9 Portuguese 257700000
10 Urdu 231300000
11 Indonesian 199000000
12 German 134600000
13 Japanese 125400000
14 Nigerian Pidgin 120700000
15 Marathi 99100000
16 Telugu 95700000
17 Turkish 88100000
18 Tamil 86400000
19 Yue Chinese 85600000
20 Vietnamese 85300000
21 Tagalog 82300000
22 Wu Chinese 81800000
23 Korean 81700000
24 Iranian Persian (Farsi) 77400000
25 Hausa 77100000
26 Egyptian Spoken Arabic 74800000
27 Swahili 71400000
28 Javanese 68300000
29 Italian 67900000
30 Western Punjabi 66400000
31 Kannada 64000000
32 Gujarati 62000000
33 Thai 60700000

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