What are the top five most spoken languages?

Question

Also, what percent of the world's population speaks each of these languages?

Answer 1

1. Mandarin (mostly in China)
863 million

2. Hindi (India)
357 million

3. Spanish
352 million

4. English
335 million

5. Bengali (India, Bangladesh)
200 million

Answer 2

Mandarin chinese is the most study language, regardless of the indisputable fact that it probable loses its right position because it really is basically one style of spoken chinese, albeit the reliable one and the only which authorities coverage would have you ever believe all chinese talk. English is actual the most broadly spoken, i.e. geographically maximum dispersed and therefore the choicest, truly when you consider that its twentieth century adoption as thw international's determination as its 2d language. Even the Italian business large FIAT makes use of English in its board room, Spanish is possibly 0.33. Hindi is the reliable language of India yet like Mandarin has its files skewed through its authorities's optimism about how a lot of its voters talk it. Pakistan's Urdu is a Muslim style of an same language yet written in Arabic script and having more desirable Arab and Persian loanwords in its vocabulary, regardless of the indisputable fact that both languages are mutally intelligible. Arabic is a sacred written language which all Muslims are meant to manage to study, yet like chinese, is split in its spoken varieties between various dailects that are hardly ever all mutually intelligible. French is yet another language boosted through a nationalistic authorities hectic to over-convince us of its ubiquity. what number Africans interior the Francophone section actual talk it really is amazingly controversial. once you downgrade French and substances precise totals for each separate style of spoken Arabic, then Portuguese rises, with round 2 hundred million audio device in Brazil, Portugal, and between the knowledgeable elite of Portugal's former colonies, to a minimum of fifth position. i think huge form six will be Russian, German as seven, and French no more desirable than nineth (after North African Arabic).

Answer 3

Chinese* (937,132,000)
Spanish (332,000,000)
English (322,000,000)
Bengali (189,000,000)
Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
or
Mandarin Chinese (836 million)
Hindi (333 million)
Spanish (332 million)
English (322 million)
Bengali (189 million)

Answer 4

Chinese* (937,132,000)
Spanish (332,000,000)
English (322,000,000)
Bengali (189,000,000)
Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)

or

1. Chinese (Mandarin) 1,075,000,000
2. English 514,000,000
3. Hindi/Urdu 496,000,000
4. Spanish 425,000,000
5. Russian 275,000,000

Answer 5

1. English
2. Spanish
3. Mandarin

Answer 6

English
Arabic
Spanish
French
German

Answer 7

Chinese 14.56%
Hindi 6.10%
Spanish 5.96%
English 5.68%
Bengali 3.45%

Answer 8

i think: English, Chinese, Arab, Spanish and Hindi