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Most Spoken Languages

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Most Spoken Languages, with language, family, approximate total speakers, and region.

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ID Language Family Speakers Region
1 English Indo-European 1.5 billion Worldwide
2 Mandarin Chinese Sino-Tibetan 1.2 billion East Asia
3 Hindi Indo-European 611 million South Asia
4 Spanish Indo-European 561 million Americas and Europe
5 Modern Standard Arabic Afro-Asiatic 335 million Middle East and North Africa
6 French Indo-European 334 million Europe and Africa
7 Bengali Indo-European 274 million South Asia
8 Portuguese Indo-European 269 million South America and Europe
9 Indonesian Austronesian 255 million Southeast Asia
10 Urdu Indo-European 246 million South Asia
11 Russian Indo-European 210 million Eastern Europe and Central Asia
12 Standard German Indo-European 133 million Central Europe
13 Japanese Japonic 126 million East Asia
14 Nigerian Pidgin English-based creole 121 million West Africa
15 Egyptian Arabic Afro-Asiatic 118 million North Africa
16 Marathi Indo-European 99 million South Asia
17 Vietnamese Austroasiatic 97 million Southeast Asia
18 Telugu Dravidian 96 million South Asia
19 Swahili Niger-Congo 95 million East Africa
20 Hausa Afro-Asiatic 94 million West Africa
21 Turkish Turkic 94 million West Asia
22 Western Punjabi Indo-European 90 million South Asia
23 Tagalog Austronesian 87 million Southeast Asia
24 Tamil Dravidian 86 million South Asia
25 Yue Chinese Sino-Tibetan 86 million East Asia

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