Statistics World 🌎 :verified: on Nostr: The 12 most spoken languages on Earth: English: 1,500,000,000 Mandarin: 1,100,000,000 ...

The 12 most spoken languages on Earth:

English: 1,500,000,000
Mandarin: 1,100,000,000
Hindi: 609,500,000
Spanish: 559,100,000
French: 309,800,000
Standard Arabic: 274,000,000
Bengali: 272,800,000
Portuguese: 263,600,000
Russian: 255,000,000
Urdu: 231,700,000
Indonesian: 199,100,000
German: 133,200,000

Note: number of speakers in 2023

According to Ethnologue