The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World

RANK 1 Chinese — 1.3 Billion Native Speakers Numbers vary widely — Ethnologue puts the number of native speakers at 1.3 billion native speakers, roughly 917 million of whom speak Mandarin — but there’s no doubt it’s the most spoken language in the world. If you wish to learn a language that one in six people in the world speak, this is the one for you. S RANK 2 Spanish — 460 Million Native Speakers If we were only to look at native speakers, Spanish has its nose in front of English with about 460 million speakers. If you want a language that will open up whole continents to you, Spanish is your best bet. RANK 3 English — 379 Million Native Speakers If you’re reading this article, you may be one of the 379 million-odd native English speakers, or one of the 753 million people who speak it as a second language. This indicates the remarkable success of English as the lingua franca of business, travel and international relations. RANK 4 Hindi — 341 Million Native Speakers India has 23 official languages, with Hindi/Urdu chief among them. Whether this is one language — Hindustani — or two dialects is still fiercely debated. Spoken mainly in northern India and parts of Pakistan, Hindi uses devnagri script, while Urdu uses Persian notation. RANK 5 Arabic — 315 Million Native Speakers Recent numbers put Arabic at around 315 million native speakers. But this is another instance of numbers not telling the full tale: Arabic, like Chinese, is so vastly different in its respective dialects as to be effectively a number of languages, grouped as one for the sake of convenience. RANK 6 Bengali — 228 Million Native Speakers Admit it: you didn’t expect Bengali to be on the list of most spoken languages. The Partition of Bengal by the British in 1947 divided (mainly Hindu) West Bengal, now part of India, from its (mainly Muslim) counterpart East Bengal, now Bangladesh. It is the language of Kolkata, the Andaman Islands, fabulous sweets, and 130-odd million Bangladeshis — many of whom are extremely vulnerable to climate change. RANK 7 Portuguese — 220 Million Native Speakers This is another language whose reach owes much to its colonial past. Starting in the 15th century, avid Portuguese traders and conquerors brought their language to Africa, Asia and the Americas. RANK 8 Russian — 153 Million Native Speakers With roughly 153 million native speakers, Russian is the eighth most spoken language in the world. Famed for its inscrutable grammar and quite lovely Cyrillic script, it remains one of the six languages spoken in the UN, and produced the literary likes of Dostoyevsky, Nabokov, Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy and Pushkin. RANK 9 Japanese — 128 Million Native Speakers Almost all of the 128 million native Japanese speakers live in Japan — certainly the most highly geographically concentrated of all the languages on this list. The largest groups of Japanese speakers living outside Japan can be found in the US, the Philippines and Brazil. RANK 10 Lahnda (Western Punjabi) — 118 Million Native Speakers With varying estimates of around 118 million native speakers, the last spot on the list goes to… Lahnda, a Pakistani macrolanguage that primarily includes Western Punjabi! (Sorry, German — you got dumped from top world languages a few years back.) That doesn’t even include Eastern Punjabi, which is spoken in India. The Punjab was sliced in two by the British when they left, and millions of people were forced to abandon their homes, businesses and families. But they’re slowly taking their revenge, Bollywood-style: Punjabi songs now account for 50 percent of chart-toppers. That’s a comeback if we’ve ever seen one. Thank you for Watching 👇 SUBSCRIBE TO Estatísticas Curiosas YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW 👇 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtjZ... Sources: 🔘 MAKE SURE TO LEAVE A LIKE & A COMMENT 🔴 SUBSCRIBE IF YOU ARE NEW AND TURN THE BELL ON "SOCIAL ===============================" 🐦 - FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/estatisticas20 👥 - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Estatisticas... 📸 - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/estatistica... Tumblr - https://www.tumblr.com/blog/estatisti... 📝 - BLOG: https://estatisticascuriosas.blogspot... 🔘 - Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/estatisti... 🔘 - Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/6725... 🔘 - Vk - https://vk.com/estatisticascuriosas 🔘 - Livejournal - https://statistics20.livejournal.com/ 🔘 - Mix - https://mix.com/estatisticascuriosas 👇 INSCREVA-SE NO CANAL Estatísticas Curiosas 👇 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtjZ... Inscreva-se para mais vídeos futuros: Como sempre, seus comentários são bem-vindos. COMENTE abaixo quais os tópicos que você gostaria que eu executasse análise de dados para 👇