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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