Culture
Languages by Total Speakers
World languages ranked by total number of speakers.
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Language↕ | Family↕ | Branch↕ | Numbers of speakers(millions)↕ |
|---|---|---|---|
| First-language(L1) | Second-language(L2) | Total(L1+L2) | — |
| English(excl. creole languages) | Indo-European | Germanic | 390 |
| Mandarin Chinese(incl. Standard Chinese but excl. other varieties) | Sino-Tibetan | Sinitic | 990 |
| Hindi(excl. Urdu) | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan | 345 |
| Spanish(excl. creole languages) | Indo-European | Romance | 484 |
| Modern Standard Arabic(excl. dialects) | Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | 0 |
| French(excl. creole languages) | Indo-European | Romance | 74 |
| Bengali | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan | 242 |
| Portuguese(excl. creole languages) | Indo-European | Romance | 250 |
| Russian | Indo-European | Balto-Slavic | 145 |
| Indonesian | Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | 75 |
| Urdu(excl. Hindi) | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan | 78 |
| Standard German | Indo-European | Germanic | 76 |
| Japanese | Japonic | —N/a | 124 |
| Nigerian Pidgin | English Creole | Krio | 5 |
| Egyptian Arabic(excl. other Arabic dialects) | Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | 84 |
| Marathi | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan | 83 |
| Vietnamese | Austroasiatic | Vietic | 86 |
| Telugu | Dravidian | South-Central | 83 |
| Hausa | Afro-Asiatic | Chadic | 58 |
| Turkish | Turkic | Oghuz | 85 |
| Western Punjabi(excl. Eastern Punjabi) | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan | —N/a |
| Swahili | Niger–Congo | Bantu | 4 |
| Tagalog | Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | 33 |
| Tamil | Dravidian | South | 79 |
| Yue Chinese(incl. Cantonese) | Sino-Tibetan | Sinitic | 85 |
| Wu Chinese(incl. Shanghainese) | Sino-Tibetan | Sinitic | 83 |
| Iranian Persian(excl. other Persian dialects) | Indo-European | Iranian | 65 |
| Korean | Koreanic | —N/a | 81 |
| Thai | Kra–Dai | Zhuang–Tai | 27 |
| Javanese | Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | —N/a |
| Italian | Indo-European | Romance | 63 |
| Gujarati | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan | 58 |
| Levantine Arabic(excl. other Arabic dialects) | Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | 58 |
| Amharic | Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | 35 |
| Kannada | Dravidian | South | 44 |
| Bhojpuri | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan | 53 |
| Sudanese Arabic(excl. other Arabic dialects) | Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | 41 |
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