English |
1,268 |
Indo-European |
Countries where English is an official language or primary language:
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (UK)
- 🇺🇸 United States of America (USA)
- 🇦🇬 Antigua & Barbuda
- 🇧🇸 Bahamas
- 🇧🇧 Barbados
- 🇧🇿 Belize
- 🇨🇰 Cook Islands
- 🇩🇲 Dominica
- 🇬🇩 Grenada
- 🇬🇾 Guyana
- 🇯🇲 Jamaica
- 🇱🇷 Liberia
- 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea
- 🇰🇳 Saint Kitts & Nevis
- 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia
- 🇻🇨 Saint Vincent & Grenadines
- 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
- 🇹🇹 Trinidad & Tobago.
Countries where English is spoken as a minority language:
- 🇧🇼 Botswana
- 🇧🇮 Burundi
- 🇨🇲 Cameroon
- 🇨🇦 Canada (not in Quebec, Nunavut and northern New Brunswick)
- 🇸🇿 Eswatini
- 🇫🇯 Fiji (used as a “lingua franca” trade language)
- 🇬🇲 Gambia
- 🇬🇭 Ghana (used as a “lingua franca” trade language)
- 🇮🇳 India (used officially and for education)
- 🇮🇪 Ireland (co-official language with Irish)
- 🇰🇪 Kenya (used in business and education)
- 🇰🇮 Kiribati
- 🇰🇮 Lesotho
- 🇰🇮 Malawi
- 🇲🇹 Malta (used officially and for education and business)
- 🇲🇭 Marshall Islands
- 🇲🇺 Mauritius
- 🇫🇲 Micronesia
- 🇳🇦 Namibia (used as a “lingua franca” trade language)
- 🇳🇷 Nauru (minority language but widely spoken)
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria (used as a “lingua franca” trade language)
- 🇳🇺 Niue
- 🇵🇰 Pakistan (minority language but used officially and for education)
- 🇵🇼 Palau
- 🇵🇭 Philippines (co-official language with Filipi)
- 🇷🇼 Rwanda (used officially and for education)
- 🇼🇸 Samoa
- 🇸🇨 Seychelles
- 🇸🇬 Singapore (used as a “lingua franca” trade language, widely spoken, used in education)
- 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands
- 🇿🇦 South Africa (used as a “lingua franca” for trade and used officially in education)
- 🇸🇸 South Sudan
- 🇸🇩 Sudan
- 🇹🇿 Tanzania
- 🇹🇴 Tonga
- 🇹🇻 Tuvalu
- 🇺🇬 Uganda (used officially for education)
- 🇻🇺 Vanuatu
- 🇿🇲 Zambia
- 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe (used as a “lingua franca” trade language).
Tops the list of the most spoken languages in the world. |
Mandarin Chinese
(includes Standard Chinese) |
1,120 |
Sino-Tibetan |
- 🇨🇳 China (as Putonghua)
- 🇹🇼Taiwan (as Guoyu)
- 🇸🇬 Singapore (as Huayu)
Countries where Mandarin Chinese is spoken as a minority language:
- 🇲🇲 Myanmar (Wa State)
- 🇺🇸 United States of America (Minority language. Chinese is the third most spoken language in the USA).
Mandarin is second in the list of the most spoken languages in the world. |
Hindi |
637.3 |
Indo-European |
Hindu is third in the list of the most spoken languages in the world. |
Spanish |
537.9 |
Indo-European |
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
- 🇧🇴 Bolivia
- 🇮🇨 Canary Islands
- 🇨🇱 Chile
- 🇨🇴 Colombia
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- 🇨🇺 Cuba
- 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
- 🇪🇨 Ecuador
- 🇸🇻 El Salvador
- 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
- 🇬🇹 Guatemala
- 🇭🇳 Honduras
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
- 🇳🇮 Nicaragua
- 🇵🇦 Panama
- 🇵🇾 Paraguay
- 🇵🇪 Peru
- 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico (USA Territory)
- 🇺🇾 Uruguay
- 🇺🇸 United States of America. Spanish is the second most spoken language in the USA.
- 🇻🇪 Venezuela.
Spanish is widely spoken across Central & South America, apart from Brazil, and is foruth in the list of the most spoken languages in the world. |
French |
276.6 |
Indo-European |
Countries where French is an official language or primary language:
- 🇫🇷 France
- 🇧🇪 Belgium
- 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
- 🇧🇮 Burundi
- 🇨🇲 Cameroon
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- 🇨🇫 Central African Republic
- 🇹🇩 Chad
- 🇰🇲 Comoros
- 🇨🇬 Congo / Congo Republic
- 🇩🇯 Djibouti
- 🇨🇩 DR Congo / Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
- 🇬🇦 Gabon
- 🇬🇳 Guinea
- 🇭🇹 Haiti
- 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
- 🇲🇬 Madagascar
- 🇲🇱 Mali
- 🇲🇨 Monaco
- 🇳🇪 Niger
- 🇷🇼 Rwanda
- 🇸🇳 Senegal
- 🇸🇨 Seychelles
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- 🇹🇬 Togo
- 🇻🇺 Vanuatu.
French Territories where French is an official language or primary language:
- Aosta Valley
- Clipperton
- 🇵🇫 French Polynesia
- 🇹🇫 French Southern Territories
- 🇳🇨 New Caledonia
- 🇧🇱 Saint Barthélemy
- 🇲🇫 Saint Martin
- Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
- 🇼🇫 Wallis & Futuna.
Fifth in the list of the most spoken languages in the world. |
Standard Arabic |
274 |
Afro-Asiatic |
- 🇩🇿 Algeria
- 🇧🇭 Bahrain
- 🇹🇩 Chad
- 🇩🇯 Djibouti
- 🇪🇬 Egypt
- 🇮🇶 Iraq
- 🇯🇴 Jordan
- 🇰🇼 Kuwait
- 🇱🇧 Lebanon
- 🇱🇾 Libya
- 🇲🇦 Morocco
- 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
- 🇸🇴 Somalia
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- 🇾🇪 Yemen.
Arabic is the most widely spoken language across the Middle East, Arabian Peninsula and North Africa. |
Bengali |
265.2 |
Indo-European |
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
- 🇮🇳 India (West Bengal, Tripura, Assam’s Barak Valley and Jharkhand).
|
Russian |
258 |
Indo-European |
Countries where Russian is an official language or primary language:
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Abkhazia (disputed state, co-official)
- 🇧🇾 Belarus
- 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan (co-official)
- 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan (co-official)
- 🇲🇩 Moldova (Gagauzia (co-official), Transnistria (disputed state. co-official)
- South Ossetia (disputed state)
- 🇹🇯 Tajikistan
- 🇹🇲 Turkmenistan (inter-ethnic communication)
Countries where Russian is spoken as a minority language:
- 🇦🇲 Armenia
- 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
- 🇨🇳 China
- 🇨🇾 Cyprus
- 🇨🇿 Czechia / Czech Republic
- 🇮🇱 Israel
- 🇱🇻 Latvia
- 🇲🇩 Moldova
- 🇲🇳 Mongolia
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- 🇷🇴 Romania (regional and minority)
- 🇸🇰 Slovakia
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine (disputed Republic of Crimea)
- 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan (inter-ethnic communication).
|
Portuguese |
252.2 |
Indo-European |
Countries and territories where Portuguese is an official language:
- 🇵🇹 Portugal
- 🇧🇷 Brazil (most spoken language)
- 🇦🇴 Angola (minority and second language)
- 🇨🇻 Cape Verde / Cabo Verde (mostly spoken as a second language)
- 🇹🇱 East Timor / Timor-Leste (minority language)
- 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea (minority language)
- 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau (minority language)
- 🇨🇳 Macau China SAR (minority language)
- 🇲🇿 Mozambique (minority language)
- 🇸🇹 São Tomé & Príncipe (most spoken language).
|
Indonesian |
199 |
Austronesian |
Indonesian (bahasa Indonesia) is a standardised variety of Malay and tenth in the list of most spoken languages in the world. Indonesian is mostly spoken in:
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia
- 🇹🇱 East Timor / Timor-Leste.
|
Urdu |
170.6 |
Indo-European |
- 🇮🇳 India (as Hindi, Urdu)
- 🇵🇰 Pakistan (as Urdu).
|
German |
131.6 |
Indo-European |
Countries and territories where German is an official language:
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- 🇦🇹 Austria (most spoken language)
- 🇧🇪 Belgium (minority language spoken in German communities)
- 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein (most spoken language)
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg (co-official language with French and Luxembourgish)
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland (co-official language at federal level with French, Italian and Romansh).
|
Japanese |
126.4 |
Japonic |
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- 🇵🇼 Palau
- 🇺🇸 United States of America. Japanese is a minority language in the USA.
|
Swahili |
98.5 |
Niger–Congo |
Countries and territories where Swahili is an official language:
- 🇨🇩 DR Congo / Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 🇰🇪 Kenya
- 🇷🇼 Rwanda
- 🇹🇿 Tanzania
- 🇺🇬 Uganda.
Countries where Swahili is spoken as a minority language:
- 🇧🇮 Burundi
- 🇲🇿 Mozambique.
|
Marathi |
95.3 |
Indo-European |
- 🇮🇳 India (Primarily spoken in Maharashtra, Goa and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (DNHDD) union territory).
|
Telugu |
93 |
Dravidian |
- 🇮🇳 India (primarily in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Yanam, Andaman and Nicobar Islands).
|
Turkish |
85.2 |
Turkic |
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- Northern Cyprus (disputed territory)
- 🇨🇾 Cyprus.
Countries where Turkish is spoken as a minority language:
- 🇧🇦 Bosnia & Herzegovina
🇬🇷 Greece
🇮🇶 Iraq
🇽🇰 Kosovo
🇲🇰 North Macedonia
🇷🇴 Romania.
|
Yue Chinese
(including Cantonese) |
84.9 |
Sino-Tibetan |
- 🇨🇳China, Hong Kong as Chinese
- 🇨🇳 China, Macau as Chinese.
|
Tamil |
83.8 |
Dravidian |
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- 🇸🇬 Singapore
- 🇮🇳 India (Tamil Nadu, Puducherry)
Countries where Tamil is spoken as a minority language:
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia
- 🇲🇺 Mauritius
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
|
Western Punjabi / Lahnda |
82.8 |
Indo-European |
- 🇵🇰 Pakistan (spoken is Punjab, Azad Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regions).
|
Wu Chinese
(including Shanghainese) |
81.8 |
Sino-Tibetan |
- 🇨🇳 China (Anhui, Fujian, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shanghai, Zhejiang and SAR Hong Kong and Macau
- Overseas Chinese communities worldwide with origins from Shanghai, Jiangsu and/or Zhejiang.
|
Korean |
79.4 |
Koreanic |
- 🇰🇵 North Korea
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- 🇨🇳China (Yanbian Prefecture and Changbai County).
Countries where Korean is spoken as a minority language:
- 🇷🇺Russia (Primorsky Krai).
|
Vietnamese |
77 |
Austroasiatic |
Countries where Vietnamese is spoken as a minority language:
- 🇨🇿 Czechia / Czech Republic
- 🇰🇭 Cambodia (Kampong Luong, floating village)
- 🇫🇷 France
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- 🇺🇸 United States of America (USA).
|
Hausa |
72.7 |
Afro-Asiatic |
- 🇳🇪 Niger
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria
- 🇬🇭 Ghana.
Countries where Hausa is spoken as a minority language:
- 🇧🇯 Benin
- 🇨🇲 Cameroon
- 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
- 🇱🇾 Libya
- 🇹🇬 Togo.
|
Javanese |
68.3 |
Austronesian |
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia (Java island).
|
Egyptian Arabic |
67.8 |
Afro-Asiatic |
|
Italian |
67.7 |
Indo-European |
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- 🇸🇲 San Marino
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- 🇻🇦 Vatican City / Holy See.
Countries where Italian is spoken as a minority language:
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia (Slovenian Istria region)
- 🇭🇷 Croatia (Istria County).
|
Thai |
60.7 |
Kra–Dai |
Countries where Thai is spoken as a minority language:
- 🇰🇭 Cambodia (Koh Kong province)
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia (Kedah, Kelantan states)
- 🇲🇲 Myanmar (Tanintharyi region).
|
Gujarati |
60.7 |
Indo-European |
- 🇮🇳 India (Primarily spoken in Gujarat and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (DNHDD) union territory).
|
Kannada |
56.5 |
Dravidian |
- 🇮🇳 India (Karnataka state).
|
Persian |
55 |
Indo-European |
- 🇮🇷 Iran
- 🇦🇫 Afghanistan (as Dari)
- 🇹🇯 Tajikistan (as Tajik).
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