Most spoken languages by total speakers — the full ranked list
The complete ranking of most spoken languages by total 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 total speakers, first and second language combined. English leads on total speakers even though Mandarin has far more native ones.
The figures behind this ranking move over time, so the order is right for now rather than fixed.
100 entries, in order.
- English
- Mandarin Chinese
- Hindi
- Spanish
- French
- Modern Standard Arabic
- Bengali
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Urdu
- Indonesian
- German
- Japanese
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Marathi
- Telugu
- Turkish
- Tamil
- Yue Chinese
- Vietnamese
- Tagalog
- Wu Chinese
- Korean
- Iranian Persian
- Hausa
- Egyptian Arabic
- Swahili
- Javanese
- Italian
- Western Punjabi
- Kannada
- Gujarati
- Thai
- Amharic
- Bhojpuri
- Eastern Punjabi
- Min Nan Chinese
- Jinyu Chinese
- Levantine Arabic
- Yoruba
- Hakka Chinese
- Burmese
- Sudanese Arabic
- Polish
- Malayalam
- Odia
- Maithili
- Ukrainian
- Moroccan Arabic
- Igbo
- Romanian
- Dutch
- Sindhi
- Tunisian Arabic
- Nepali
- Mesopotamian Arabic
- Cebuano
- Sinhala
- Assamese
- Kurdish
- Somali
- Chhattisgarhi
- Zulu
- Malay
- Saraiki
- Hungarian
- Czech
- Greek
- Chittagonian
- Kazakh
- Deccani
- Magahi
- Uyghur
- Xiang Chinese
- Haryanvi
- Awadhi
- Swedish
- Tamazight
- Fula
- Sundanese
- Kirundi
- Kinyarwanda
- Oromo
- Serbo-Croatian
- Belarusian
- Bulgarian
- Azerbaijani
- Pashto
- Uzbek
- Malagasy
- Hebrew
- Danish
- Finnish
- Norwegian
- Slovak
- Catalan
- Tigrinya
- Shona
- Xhosa
- Quechua
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