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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 millionArabic 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.
How many countries speak Arabic? Twenty-five countries and territories have populations whose native language is Arabic.
Jan 25, 2019 · How Many People Speak Arabic In The World? If you count all of the varieties of today’s Arabic together, you can safely estimate that there are about 313 million Arabic speakers in the whole world, making it the fifth most-spoken language globally behind Mandarin, Spanish, English and Hindi.
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.
Jan 9, 2024 · So how many people in the world speak Arabic? 274 million people speak Modern Standard Arabic (native and non-native included). That makes it the 6th most-spoken language in 2020, although we know by now that most Arabs understand it, but are not unlikely to use it in everyday interactions.
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)
