The most spoken languages

Always interesting to see the real-world ranking shift when you count total speakers instead of just native ones. English keeps punching way above its native base thanks to second-language reach.👍

Turkish (Turkiye dialect) is spoken by at least 120 million world wide. Add that Azerbaijani dialect, you'll have 180 million (including northern Iran).

What do you call someone that speaks 3 languages? Trilingual. What do you call someone that speaks 2 languages? Bilingual. What do you call someone that speaks 1 language? American

So why did we have to learn French in school in Canada, why not Mandarin or Spanish??

English is top because the Indian subcontinent has it as their lingua franca. Don't make the mistake of thinking British or American English when you a stat like this - this is about Indian English.

Where is Turkish? 200 million people speak Turkish

All the languages are concentrated to a certain region, only English is most widely spoken language of this century. And Arabic is most widely read only language on earth for 14 centuries.

🤣🤣🤣not correct at all There’s more than 400M Arabian people speaking the same language “Arabic”

I would have expected the number of Russian speakers to have decreased during WWII.

Wrong flag for Portuguese. Population of Brazil is well over 200 million vs ~11 million in Portugal.

you have the wrong flag on English

I think Swahili deserves a place in your list. A language spoken to about 400mil ppl in Africa. A language to more than seven countries in east and central Africa.

Bengali Language is native to India, not Bangladesh

Mandarin Chinese is like British English. What's the point of single it out from the other dialect that share the same writing system.

must be stupid Swahili is tbe main language in Tanzania and we are 67m plus Kenya most of them speak it,Congo some of them speak it,Burundi some of them,Uganda some of them and still not in the list or this is list is not for African🚮

You can speak Turkish from the Balkans to China

The official language of Heaven is English.

There is almost 2 billion arabs in arab countries and arabic is not listed here, very accurate

language I wish was spoken more.

Bütün Türk Dil Ailesi (Geniş Anlamda): Azerbaycan Türkçesi, Özbekçe, Kazakça, Türkmence, Kırgızca, Uygurca ve Tatarca gibi tüm lehçeler ve Türk dilleri dâhil edildiğinde bu sayı 200 ila 250 milyon civarındadır.

There were over 80 million German speakers at the beginning of the 20th century.

Can you please let us know what is urdu and what Indian speak in India as there is a huge difference between Hindi and what the Indians speaks nowadays. Which is Urdu.

This statistic is not accurate. The population of Arab countries exceeds 450 million, and Arabic is also spoken by many Muslims around the world as either a first or second language.

So the most spoken language in India isn’t even understood by half of India

Wow. That shift w English at the home stretch.

China lies about its population figures. It’s probably less than half of what they claim

Most of the English speakers aren't English anymore. The majority of the Manderin are Chinese though.

Where is this data from?

Is this propaganda? English more than mandarin ?

english is just everywhere now. cant argue with that

Over #talen der wereld: in #beweging.

Tiếng Anh là ngôn ngữ chính rồi

Who created this nonsense? India boasts the world’s largest population while Brazil has 200 million Portuguese speakers. 🤷‍♂️

Where is Turkish (or Turkic languages)? It is estimated above 200 M already. BS non-sense chart.

English language should be 🇱🇷 flag