Languages by Native Speakers
Name↕ | Language↕ | Native speakers(millions)↕ | Language family↕ | Branch↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mandarin Chinese | Mandarin Chinese | 990 | Sino-Tibetan | Sinitic |
Spanish | Spanish | 484 | Indo-European | Romance |
English | English | 390 | Indo-European | Germanic |
Hindi | Hindi | 345 | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan |
Portuguese | Portuguese | 250 | Indo-European | Romance |
Bengali | Bengali | 242 | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan |
Russian | Russian | 145 | Indo-European | Balto-Slavic |
Japanese | Japanese | 124 | Japonic | —N/a |
Western Punjabi | Western Punjabi | 90 | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan |
Vietnamese | Vietnamese | 86 | Austroasiatic | Vietic |
Yue Chinese | Yue Chinese | 85 | Sino-Tibetan | Sinitic |
Turkish | Turkish | 85 | Turkic | Oghuz |
Egyptian Arabic | Egyptian Arabic | 84 | Afroasiatic | Semitic |
Wu Chinese | Wu Chinese | 83 | Sino-Tibetan | Sinitic |
Marathi | Marathi | 83 | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan |
Telugu | Telugu | 83 | Dravidian | South-Central |
Korean | Korean | 81 | Koreanic | —N/a |
Tamil | Tamil | 79 | Dravidian | South |
Urdu | Urdu | 78 | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan |
Standard German | Standard German | 76 | Indo-European | Germanic |
Indonesian | Indonesian | 75 | Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian |
French | French | 74 | Indo-European | Romance |
Javanese | Javanese | 69 | Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian |
Iranian Persian | Iranian Persian | 65 | Indo-European | Iranian |
Italian | Italian | 63 | Indo-European | Romance |
Hausa | Hausa | 58 | Afroasiatic | Chadic |
Gujarati | Gujarati | 58 | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan |
Levantine Arabic | Levantine Arabic | 58 | Afroasiatic | Semitic |
Bhojpuri | Bhojpuri | 53 | Indo-European | Indo-Aryan |
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