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Most Spoken Languages
25 most spoken languages in the world ranked by total number of speakers, with native speaker counts, language family, writing system, and number of countries.
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Language↕ | Native Speakers (M)↕ | Total Speakers (M)↕ | Language Family↕ | Writing System↕ | Countries↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | 380 | 1,460 | Indo-European (Germanic) | Latin | 67 |
| Mandarin Chinese | 920 | 1,120 | Sino-Tibetan | Chinese characters | 6 |
| Hindi | 345 | 602 | Indo-European (Indo-Aryan) | Devanagari | 4 |
| Spanish | 485 | 559 | Indo-European (Romance) | Latin | 21 |
| French | 81 | 310 | Indo-European (Romance) | Latin | 29 |
| Arabic | 310 | 380 | Afro-Asiatic (Semitic) | Arabic | 25 |
| Bengali | 234 | 265 | Indo-European (Indo-Aryan) | Bengali-Assamese | 2 |
| Portuguese | 236 | 263 | Indo-European (Romance) | Latin | 10 |
| Russian | 147 | 255 | Indo-European (Slavic) | Cyrillic | 4 |
| Japanese | 123 | 125 | Japonic | Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana | 1 |
| Urdu | 70 | 230 | Indo-European (Indo-Aryan) | Nastaliq (Perso-Arabic) | 2 |
| Indonesian (Malay) | 43 | 199 | Austronesian | Latin | 4 |
| German | 76 | 132 | Indo-European (Germanic) | Latin | 6 |
| Swahili | 16 | 200 | Niger-Congo (Bantu) | Latin | 7 |
| Turkish | 82 | 88 | Turkic | Latin | 2 |
| Korean | 81 | 82 | Koreanic | Hangul | 2 |
| Vietnamese | 85 | 86 | Austroasiatic | Latin (Chữ Quốc Ngữ) | 1 |
| Tamil | 78 | 86 | Dravidian | Tamil | 3 |
| Italian | 64 | 68 | Indo-European (Romance) | Latin | 4 |
| Thai | 21 | 61 | Kra-Dai | Thai | 1 |
| Polish | 40 | 45 | Indo-European (Slavic) | Latin | 1 |
| Punjabi | 113 | 150 | Indo-European (Indo-Aryan) | Gurmukhi / Shahmukhi | 2 |
| Hausa | 54 | 80 | Afro-Asiatic (Chadic) | Latin / Ajami | 5 |
| Persian (Farsi) | 55 | 110 | Indo-European (Iranian) | Perso-Arabic | 3 |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | 28 | 82 | Austronesian | Latin | 1 |
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