The top 20 most spoken languages in the world, ranked in order of the estimated number of speakers:
- English: 1,456,448,320 speakers
- Mandarin Chinese: 1,138,222,350 speakers
- Hindi: 609,454,770 speakers
- Spanish: 559,078,890 speakers
- French: 309,804,220 speakers
- Modern Standard Arabic: 273,989,700 speakers
- Bengali: 272,828,760 speakers
- Russian: 254,997,130 speakers
- Portuguese: 263,638,850 speakers
- Urdu: 231,717,940 speakers
- Indonesian: 199,113,300 speakers
- German: 133,245,880 speakers
- Japanese: 123,445,570 speakers
- Nigerian Pidgin*: 120,650,000 speakers
- Egyptian Arabic: 102,436,230 speakers
- Marathi: 99,216,870 speakers
- Telugu: 95,981,790 speakers
- Turkish: 90,028,000 speakers
- Tamil: 86,640,030 speakers
- Cantonese: 86,633,370 speakers
This is an estimated list.
* Nigerian Pidgin is not translated by Interpret-R.