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Bookmark or Share- Ranked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Around the World - Visual CapitalistRanked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Worldwide. Even though you’re reading this article in English, there’s a good chance it might not be your mother tongue. Of the billion-strong English speakers in the world, only 33% consider it their native language. The popularity of a language depends greatly on utility and geographic location.
- List of languages by number of native speakers - WikipediaTop first languages by population per CIA; Rank Language Percentage of world population (2018) 1: Mandarin Chinese: 12.3% 2: Spanish: 6.0% 3: English: 5.1% 3: Arabic: 5.1% 5: Hindi: 3.5% 6: Bengali: 3.3% 7: Portuguese: 3.0% 8: Russian: 2.1% 9: Japanese: 1.7% 10: Western Punjabi: 1.3% 11: Javanese: 1.1%
- The World Atlas of Languages | UNESCO WALThe World Atlas of Languages is an interactive and dynamic online tool that documents different aspects and features of language status in countries and languages around the world. It aims to provide a detailed record of languages as communicative tools and knowledge resources in their sociocultural and socio-political contexts.
- All World Languages in One Visualization, By Native SpeakersAll World Languages, By Native Speakers. View a high resolution version of today’s graphic by clicking here. Languages provide a window into culture and history. They’re also a unique way to map the world – not through landmasses or geopolitical borders, but through mother tongues. The Tower of Babel.
- languages by total number of speakers - Encyclopedia BritannicaBelow is a list of the 25 languages with the highest number of total speakers, according to data from the Ethnologue language catalog in the early 2020s. For a list of languages that counts only the number of native speakers, see languages by number of native speakers. English (1,456,448,320)
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