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What are the most popular human languages by native speaker population?
According to Ethnologue, the most popular human languages by native speaker population are:
- Mandarin Chinese (1.1 billion native speakers)
- Spanish (460 million native speakers)
- English (360 million native speakers)
- Hindi (310 million native speakers)
- Arabic (280 million native speakers)
- Bengali (265 million native speakers)
- Portuguese (215 million native speakers)
- Russian (155 million native speakers)
- Japanese (125 million native speakers)
- German (90 million native speakers)
What are the most popular human languages by some proficiency?
The most popular human languages by some proficiency are English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, and German.
The top 100
- Mandarin Chinese
- Spanish
- English
- Hindi
- Arabic
- Bengali
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Japanese
- German
- Javanese
- Wu Chinese
- Malay
- Telugu
- Vietnamese
- Korean
- French
- Marathi
- Tamil
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Italian
- Yue Chinese
- Persian
- Polish
- Pashto
- Kannada
- Xiang Chinese
- Gujarati
- Hakka Chinese
- Thai
- Odia
- Min Bei Chinese
- Min Dong Chinese
- Sundanese
- Hausa
- Burmese
- Luo
- Kazakh
- Cantonese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Amharic
- Yoruba
- Maithili
- Igbo
- Azerbaijani
- Gan Chinese
- Shanghainese
- Hakka
- Zhuang
- Swahili
- Malagasy
- Czech
- Kinyarwanda
- Chittagonian
- Sinhala
- Khmer
- Min Nan Chinese
- Syriac
- Konkani
- Danish
- Bhojpuri
- Haryanvi
- Finnish
- Magahi
- Hungarian
- Bulgarian
- Romanian
- Awadhi
- Swedish
- Oriya
- Ilocano
- Saraiki
- Kachchi
- Greek
- Nepal Bhasa
- Silesian
- Tatar
- Serbo-Croatian
- Kumauni
- Santali
- Saraiki
- Kashmiri
- Sindhi
- Marwari
- Lepcha
- Dogri
- Shina
- Kumaoni
- Sherpa
- Bhili
- Kalmyk
- Luri
- Pahari
- Maithili
- Komi
- Manchu
- Nepali
- Bishnupriya Manipuri