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1. Mandarin Chinese

Native speakers : 955 million
Widely spoken in: China, Taiwan, and Singapore

Mandarin Chinese takes the cake as the world’s most spoken language based on its tremendous number of native speakers. As the standard official and literary form of Chinese based on the Beijing dialect and one of the official languages of the United Nations, Mandarin is the second most popular online language, and it continues growing.

2 English

Native speakers: 360 million
Widely spoken in: the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland), Republic of Ireland, Africa (as a lingua franca, official or educational language in 20 countries), the Americas and the Caribbean (Canada and the United States as well as in 15 Caribbean countries), Asia (India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore and Sri Lanka), Australia and the Pacific Islands (Australia, New Zealand and over 15 pacific islands)

The wide spread of English around the globe and its presence in some of the world’s most economically influential countries have given English its place as the world’s second most spoken language. It is the most used language on the internet and one of the United Nation’s official languages. It is interesting to note that the number of non-native English speakers nearly doubles the number of native English speakers, making it the world’s most learned and spoken foreign language. The number of native speakers in 2010 has actually decreased since 2007, while the number of non-native speakers continues increasing.

3. Spanish

Native speakers: 427 million
Widely spoken in: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela, and widely spoken in over 20 more countries

The prominence of Spanish in the Americas and Europe has led Spanish to becoming one of the world’s most spoken languages with over 420 million native speakers and a growing number of non-native speakers. It is also one of the official languages of the United Nations. It’s an official, national, or widely spoken language in 44 countries, including the United States. Believe it or not, the United States has recently been cited as the second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, after Mexico.

4. Hindi

Native speakers: 310 million
Widely spoken in: India, Nepal, Fiji, and Pakistan

The standard and Sanskrit register of the Hindustani language known as Hindi is one of India’s official languages, and its large population of Indian speakers has led Hindi to becoming one of the world’s most spoken languages. According to linguistic standards, Hindi and Urdu are the same language; however, due to some key differences between their writing systems and vocabulary, they will be considered separate for the sake of this list.

5. Arabic

Native speakers : 295 million

Widely spoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Palestine and Western Sahara

While it is difficult to narrow down exactly how many Arabic speakers there are in the world today, it’s estimate that there are over 422 million speakers total, 295 million of which are native speakers. As an official language of the United Nations and the liturgical language of over 1.6 billion Muslims, Arabic is without a doubt one of the world’s most spoken languages and has even contributed over 4,000 loan words to the Spanish language.

6.Indonesian

Standard Malay native speakers : 77 million
Widely spoken in: Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore

Malay is found in the Austronesian language family and is spoken throughout the Malaysian peninsula. While there are about 18 million people who speak Standard Malay, there are over 170 million people who speak Indonesian, which is a close form of Malay.

7. French

Native speakers: 80 million

Widely spoken in: Europe (France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaca, Switzerland), Africa (spoken in over 26 countries, including Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco), the Americas and the Caribbean (Canada, Haiti, French Guiana, Martinique, and Guadeloupe), and in three Pacific Islands

French is the official language of over 29 countries throughout the world and is the second-most widely spoken first language in the European Union. The colonial history of France has helped spread this language throughout the world and, like in the case of English, has led to a situation in which there are more non-native French speakers than native speakers. French is also one of the United Nations’ six official languages.

8. Bengali

Native speakers: 205 million
Widely spoken in: India and Bangladesh

Bengali is the second most widely spoken language in India and is primarily spoken in the easternmost states of the country, as well as in Bangladesh. There is a strong history of Bengali nationalism that has led to its rich literary tradition and cultural diversity.
9. Portuguese

Native speakers: 215 million
Widely spoken in: Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé

Of the nearly 215 native Portuguese speakers, over 150 million speak Brazilian Portuguese, the most common variation, due to Brazil’s large population. Apart from Portugal and Brazil, Portuguese colonization also led the language to be spoken in several African countries.

10. Russian

Native speakers : 171 million
Widely spoken in: Russia and countries that occupy the former Soviet Union (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine)

Russian is an official language of the United Nations due to the historical power of the Soviet Union. Estimates of the number of Russian speakers around the world vary, but sources indicate between 200 and 260 million native speakers. This number is, however, slowly decreasing thanks to the breaking up of the Soviet Union and the consequent rising number of speakers of other languages in former Soviet Union countries.
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Did you analyse this base on population of the original speakers??

All those millions of Mandarin speakers that did not give their life to christ are going to hell.




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Over 210million people speaks Hausa, in Nigeria alone their like 100million hausa speakers but you won't see it on the list cuz it's an african language.

No Yoruba and Hausa
Who wrote this ?

JikanBaura:
Over 210million people speaks Hausa, in Nigeria alone their like 100million hausa speakers but you won't see it on the list cuz it's an african language.

Ta Yaya masu magana da hausa suka Kai miliyan 200?

manasuk:
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Ta Yaya masu magana da hausa suka Kai miliyan 200?

Inkayi la'akari da cewa ayau Nigeria takai da yawan mutane million dari_biyu — wanda a yawan mutane dule za'a tarar cewa sama da million dari yan arewa ne. my estimated 110, A arewa ko mutanen da basa jin hausa basu fiye 3m ba, Akudun cin kasar nan akwai tarin Inyamurai da yarbawa e.t.c da suke jin yaren Hausa (Sun koyane sabida zama arewa) yawan mutun gudu dake arewa zai kai 30million. potential hausa speakers in Nigeria alone will be 140million, If you minus 5milion northerners and southerners who reside in north but knows little of no hausa. you will have +135million


inka dawo Nijar 98% percentage din population dinsu suna amfani da yaren Hausa. Nijar ko last population census dinsu ya azasu bisa 20million wanda ina sa ran yakai 40million ayanzu....... When you minus 2percent
you will have not less than 38million hausa speakers in Niger republic. +39million

Their are native Hausa people across 14 african countries.... Cameron, Chad, Ghana, Togo, Gabon ,Sudan, Central Africa, Eritrea , ivoricoast, and Benin republic..... I will put Hausa and Hausa speakers in this countries to +30million

plus 2million Hausa speakers around the world , Middle east countrie e.g Saudi arabia Has 1million Hausa , Europeans and chinise hausa speakers are in millions. but i will not exceed it to +2

Kaga anan ma na fidda 30 + 39 +135 +2 = 206millions cikin ma na tauye hausawa. plus many internet sources put hausa speakers to 200milion, and higherly reliable source like UK spectator_index put hausa speakers to 200milions in the 2018 latest study.

JikanBaura:
Over 210million people speaks Hausa, in Nigeria alone their like 100million hausa speakers but you won't see it on the list cuz it's an african language.

Baba calm down oo. Jst dey call figure like say na d air u breath.