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

    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.

    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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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_countries_andList of countries and territories where Arabic is an official ...

    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.

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  5. www.worlddata.info › languages › arabicArabic - Worldwide distribution - Worlddata.info

    A total of about 372.24 million people worldwide speak Arabic as their mother tongue. Origin and dialects. The Arabic language comes from the Afro-Asian language family and has its origin on the Arabian peninsula. The oldest written records date from the fourth to the fifth century B.C.E.

  6. www.statista.com › statistics › 266808The most spoken languages worldwide 2023 - Statista

    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...

  7. www.babbel.com › how-many-people-speak-arabicHow Many People Speak Arabic Around The World, And Where?

    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.

  8. worldpopulationreview.com › country-rankingsArabic Speaking Countries 2024 - World Population Review

    How many countries speak Arabic? Twenty-five countries and territories have populations whose native language is Arabic.

  9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ArabicArabic - Wikipedia

    Arabic is spoken by as many as 380 million speakers, both native and non-native, in the Arab world, [1] making it the fifth most spoken language in the world, [22] and the fourth most used language on the internet in terms of users. [23][24] It also serves as the liturgical language of more than 2 billion Muslims. [17] .

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