Language is the most important form of communication through which we can communicate to one another and it is very important function of human body. People of different origins and different countries speaks different kinds of languages so if we look around we can see that there are hundreds of languages in the whole world but we conclude that half of world speaks 13 most popular languages. In this article we made a list of top ten most widely spoken languages in the world these languages are very common with the largest number of native speakers as estimated by the Swedish Nationalencyklopedin. The ranking of top ten most spoken languages in the world depends upon how much total number of native speakers does a language have so just have a look:
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| Rank | Language | Native Speakers | Mainly Spoken in | Family |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Mandarin | 1,115 million | China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia | Sino-Tibetan,Chinese |
| 2. | English | 841 million | United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. | Indo-European,Germanic |
| 3. | Spanish | 489 million | Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Western Sahara | Indo-European,Romance |
| 4. | Hindi | 380 million | India, Nepal, Fiji . | Indo-European,Indo-Aryan, Hindustani |
| 5. | Arabic | 352 million | Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Iraq, Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Western Sahara, Somaliland, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. | Afro-Asiatic,Semitic |
| 6. | Russian | 276 million | Russia, Ukraine, and the Commonwealth of Independent States. | Indo-European,Slavic |
| 7. | Portuguese | 231 million | Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau, Timor-Leste, and Macau. | Indo-European,Romance |
| 8. | Bengali | 208 million | Bangladesh, India (West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Jharkhand (secondary)), Sierra Leone, Karachi, Pakistan. | Indo-European,Indo-Aryan |
| 9. | French | 163 million | France and its territories, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Haiti, Luxembourg, Algeria, Central African Republic. | Indo-European, Romance |
| 10. | Japanese | 128 million | Japan | Japonic |
