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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

List of languages with at least 20 million first language speakers

This post is a list of languages with at least 20 million first language speakers. There are 59 languages listed below. Data source: Wikipedia

 

1. Mandarin Chinese - 918 million

2. Spanish - 480 million

3. English - 379 million

4. Hindi - 341 million

5. Bengali - 228 million

6. Portuguese - 221 million

7. Russian - 154 million

8. Japanese - 128 million

9. Western Punjabi - 92 million

10. Marathi - 83 million

11. Telugu - 82 million

12. Wu Chinese - 81 million

13. Turkish - 79 million

14. Korean - 77 million

15. French - 77 million

16. German - 76 million

17. Vietnamese - 76 million

18. Tamil - 75 million

19. Yue Chinese - 73 million

20. Urdu - 68 million

21. Javanese - 68 million

22. Italian - 64 million

23. Egyptian Arabic - 64 million

24. Gujarati - 56 million

25. Iranian Persian - 52 million

26. Bhojpuri - 52 million

27. Min Nan Chinese - 48 million

28. Hakka Chinese - 48 million

29. Jin Chinese - 46 million

30. Hausa - 43 million

31. Kannada - 43 million

32. Indonesian - 43 million

33. Polish - 39 million

34. Yoruba - 37 million

35. Xiang Chinese - 37 million

36. Malayalam - 37 million

37. Odia - 34 million

38. Maithili - 33 million

39. Burmese - 32 million

40. Eastern Punjabi - 32 million

41. Sunda - 32 million

42. Sudanese Arabic - 31 million

43. Algerian Arabic - 29 million

44. Moroccan Arabic - 27 million

45. Ukrainian - 27 million

46. Igbo - 27 million

47. Northern Uzbek - 25 million

48. Sindhi - 24 million

49. Norther Levantine Arabic - 24 million

50. Romanian - 24 million

51. Tagalog - 23 million

52. Dutch - 23 million

53. Sa'idi Arabic - 22 million

54. Gan Chinese - 22 million

55. Amharic - 21 million

56. Northern Pashto - 20 million

57. Magahi - 20 million

58. Thai - 20 million

59. Saraiki - 20 million