Most spoken languages by native speakers — the full ranked list
The complete ranking of most spoken languages by native speakers, in order, with what the ranking counts and how firm the figures behind it are. Free reference, no sign-up — and the guessing game that plays the same list.
By number of native speakers, Ethnologue classification (treats major Chinese and Arabic varieties as separate languages).
The figures behind this ranking move over time, so the order is right for now rather than fixed.
100 entries, in order.
- Mandarin
- Spanish
- English
- Bengali
- Hindi
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Japanese
- German
- Wu Chinese
- Javanese
- Korean
- French
- Vietnamese
- Telugu
- Cantonese
- Marathi
- Tamil
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Min Nan Chinese
- Jin Chinese
- Gujarati
- Polish
- Egyptian Arabic
- Ukrainian
- Italian
- Xiang Chinese
- Malayalam
- Hakka Chinese
- Kannada
- Odia
- Western Punjabi
- Sundanese
- Eastern Punjabi
- Romanian
- Bhojpuri
- South Azerbaijani
- Persian
- Maithili
- Hausa
- Algerian Arabic
- Burmese
- Serbo-Croatian
- Gan Chinese
- Awadhi
- Thai
- Dutch
- Yoruba
- Sindhi
- Moroccan Arabic
- Saidi Arabic
- Uzbek
- Malay
- Amharic
- Indonesian
- Igbo
- Tagalog
- Nepali
- Sudanese Arabic
- Saraiki
- Cebuano
- Levantine Arabic
- Northeastern Thai
- Assamese
- Hungarian
- Chittagonian
- Mesopotamian Arabic
- Madurese
- Sinhala
- Haryanvi
- Marwari
- Czech
- Greek
- Magahi
- Chhattisgarhi
- Deccani
- Min Bei Chinese
- Belarusian
- Northern Zhuang
- Najdi Arabic
- Northern Pashto
- Somali
- Malagasy
- Tunisian Arabic
- Kinyarwanda
- Zulu
- Bulgarian
- Swedish
- Lombard
- Oromo
- Southern Pashto
- Kazakh
- Ilocano
- Tatar
- Nigerian Fulfulde
- Sanaani Arabic
- Uyghur
- Haitian Creole
- North Azerbaijani
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