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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_languages_by_totalList of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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   Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect.

   Language	Family	Branch	First-language (l1) Speakers
   English (excl. creole languages)	Indo-European	Germanic	380 million
   Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	941 million
   Hindi (excl. Urdu)	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	345 million
   Spanish (excl. creole languages)	Indo-European	Romance	486 million

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2. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org › jewish-populationJewish Population of the World - Jewish Virtual Library

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   180,800. Total Europe. 828,875,000. 1,305,100. 1 DellaPergola figures prior to 2023, which undercount U.S. Jews. For 2023, we used Sheskin and Dashefsky data with the more accurate approximation of American Jews -- 7.5 million instead of 6.3 million. 2 Data as of May 9, 2024. 3 Sheskin and Dashefsky figures. 4 CIA World Factbook Figures.

3. www.statista.com › statistics › 266808The most spoken languages worldwide 2023 | Statista

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   Jul 4, 2024 · Published by. Einar H. Dyvik, 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 ...

4. www.babbel.com › how-many-people-speak-hebrewHow Many People Speak Hebrew, And Where Is It Spoken?

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   Feb 21, 2019 · In Israel, where Hebrew was made the official language in 1922, Hebrew is spoken by pretty much all (roughly) 8.3 million residents. Only half of those who speak it in Israel use it as their first language, but it is widespread throughout the country. Because of various patterns of immigration, the other half speak languages including Yiddish ...

5. www.cia.gov › the-world-factbook › aboutLanguages - 2022 World Factbook Archive

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   note 2: all told, there are estimated to be just over 7,151 languages spoken in the world (2022); approximately 80% of these languages are spoken by less than 100,000 people; about 150 languages are spoken by fewer than 10 people; communities that are isolated from each other in mountainous regions often develop multiple languages; Papua New Guinea, for example, boasts about 840 separate ...

6. www.tabletmag.com › sections › beliefHow Hebrew Kept Us a People - Tablet Magazine

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   May 19, 2023 · For anyone who hasn’t noticed, and most haven’t, there are more speakers of Hebrew in the world today than at any other time in human history: With a population of 10 million Hebrew-speakers ...

7. www.cia.gov › the-world-factbook › fieldLanguages - The World Factbook

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   Singapore. English (official) 48.3%, Mandarin (official) 29.9%, other Chinese dialects (includes Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka) 8.7%, Malay (official) 9.2%, Tamil (official) 2.5%, other 1.4% (2020 est.) major-language sample (s): The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information.