The Top 20 Languages.
Chinese is spoken as a mother-tongue ( albeit with different dialects ) by the largest number of people. but English is more widespread as it is the mother-tongue of several countries. Likewise, Spanish and Portuguese have spread beyond their countries of origin.
Language Usage
Chinese 1,000
English 350
Hindi 145
Russian 130
Spanish 125
German 120
Japanese 116
Arabic 100
Bengali 100
Portuguese 90
Indonesian 80
French 80
Italian 63
Bihari 50
Javanese 45
Korean 45
Ukrainian 42
Telugu 40
Polish 40
Punjabi 37
The figures in the chart represent millions.

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