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Ethnologue lists the following languages as having 50 million or more total speakers. [4] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing several varieties, such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese.
LanguageFamilyBranchFirst-language (l1) SpeakersEnglish (excl. creole languages)380 millionMandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...941 millionHindi (excl. Urdu)345 millionSpanish (excl. creole languages)486 millionHow many countries speak Arabic? Twenty-five countries and territories have populations whose native language is Arabic.
Arabic is an official language in 22 countries and is partly spoken as a mother tongue in 13 other countries. The Arabic language (native name: العربية) has its roots in the Afro-Asiatic language family. With 111.36 million native speakers, Arabic has the highest prevalence in Egypt.
Jul 4, 2024 · In 2023, there were around 1.5 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.1 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers at the time...
Arabic and its different dialects are spoken by around 422 million speakers (native and non-native) in the Arab world as well as in the Arab diaspora making it one of the five most spoken languages in the world.
note 1: the six UN languages - Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian, and Spanish (Castilian) - are the mother tongue or second language of about 45% of the world's population, and are the official languages in more than half the states in the world; some 400 languages have more than a million first-language speakers (2018)
The World Report of Languages presents the outcomes of work carried out by UNESCO since 2016 working in cooperation with the UNESCO World Atlas of Languages scientific group, which includes a number of the world’s leading scholars in the subject area.
