{"id":1203,"date":"2020-04-18T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T14:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2020-04-20T15:01:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T15:01:50","slug":"most-spoken-languages-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/most-spoken-languages-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Most spoken languages in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are more than 2,700 different <a href=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/languages\/\">languages<\/a> spoken in the world, with more than 7 000 dialects, totaling, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethnologue.com\/\">Ethnologue language dictionary<\/a>, in 7,111 living languages in existence today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When calculated by first and second language use, English is the most spoken language in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/100-most-spoken-languages\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/files\/2020\/04\/languages-cloud.jpg\" alt=\"Most spoken languages in the world\" class=\"wp-image-1207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/files\/2020\/04\/languages-cloud.jpg 600w, https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/files\/2020\/04\/languages-cloud-350x230.jpg 350w, https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/files\/2020\/04\/languages-cloud-200x132.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">List of most spoken languages in the world<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Rank Language Total speakers &#8211; Language origin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1<\/strong> English 1,132 million &#8211; Indo-European<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2<\/strong> Mandarin Chinese 1,117 million &#8211; Sino-Tibetan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3<\/strong> Hindi 615 million &#8211; Indo-European<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4<\/strong> Spanish 534 million &#8211; Indo-European<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5<\/strong> French 280 million &#8211; Indo-European<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6<\/strong> Standard Arabic 274 million &#8211; Afro-Asiatic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7<\/strong> Bengali 265 million &#8211; Indo-European<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8<\/strong> Russian 258 million &#8211; Indo-European<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9<\/strong> Portuguese 234 million &#8211; Indo-European<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10<\/strong> Indonesian 199 million &#8211; Austronesian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Most spoken first languages<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The totals on first languages (<em>native language<\/em> or <em>mother tongue<\/em>) have English only in 3rd place with Mandarin as the world&#8217;s most spoken first language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Rank Language Total speakers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1<\/strong> Mandarin Chinese 918 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2<\/strong> Spanish 460 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 English 379 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4<\/strong> Hindi 341 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5<\/strong> Bengali 228 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6<\/strong> Portuguese 221 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7<\/strong> Russian 154 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8<\/strong> Japanese 128 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9<\/strong> Western Punjabi 93 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10<\/strong> Marathi 83 million<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a complete list and rankings, see Visual Capitalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/100-most-spoken-languages\/\">100 most spoken languages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more than 2,700 different languages spoken in the world, with more than 7 000 dialects, totaling, according to Ethnologue language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lists","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}