Top 10 Most Spoken Languages in the World

Language is use to communicate with others, it may be by gestures, body language or words spoken from mouth, etc. Language helps to expose your expressions, level of condition of matter, and to transfer your message to others. Below i share a list of top 10 most spoken languages in the world, this statistics is taken in 2009.


S.No     Language                         No. of Speakers
1          Chinese (Mandarin)           87 Crore, 30 Lac, 14 Thousand
2          Spanish                             32 Crore, 22 Lac, 99 Thousand
3          English                              30 Crore, 93 Lac, 52 Thousand
4          Hindi                                18 Crore, 7 Lac, 65 Thousand
5          Portuguese                       17 Crore, 74 Lac, 57 Thousand
6          Bengali                             17 Crore, 10 Lac, 70 Thousand
7          Russian                            14 Crore, 50 Lac, 31 Thousand
8          Japanese                          12 Crore, 24 Lac, 34 Thousand
9          German                            9 Crore, 53 Lac, 93 Thousand
10        Chinese (Wu)                   7 Crore, 71 Lac, 75 Thousand

Hannah Jones

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From Skopje, Macedonia, Also works as Software Quality Assurance.