The 100 most spoken languages on the world

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“A language is a dialect with army and navy.” – Max Weinreich

By Frank Herles Matos

The classification of languages related here is the result of the sum of native speakers and those who speak a second language. This base date: 31/12/07 – estimated by the governments of respective countries, but compared with data – separated by language – of civil organizations. This test has become necessary to depoliticize the primary data and allow the information to approach the end of reality as possible. Thus, languages that often appear in similar relationships with force is known by many, examples of the “Kurdish” (the people without homeland), the “Berber” (widely used in North Africa, but discredit by various governments in the region for reasons political and religious); African languages as the “Hausa“, “Oromo“, “Yoruba” and, speaking South America as “Kichwa” (used daily by millions of people in the region of the Andes), the resurgence of the “Hebrew“, etc.

A curious fact about the relationship of language most spoken is considerable variation in the numbers of estimates. According to several linguists, technical factors (on different dates and different sources of data – census and estimates) and political (or even nationalist government alone) are the main cause of these variations. See sources.

The current (2007) 6,702 languages/dialects in the world, “between 3400 to 6120 will disappear before 2100′ due to natural disasters (such as the devastating earthquake that killed thousands of Kutchi on 26/01/2001, India), military invasions (such as the Islamic conquests in the centuries 7 and 8 in the Middle East and North Africa), colonizations and “discoveries” (such the European colonizations in Africa and discovered the Americas, Australia, etc.), religion (charges of “holy”languages after military victories), epidemics and the increasingly internationalization of human society.

Ord	Continent	Language		Speakers
Ord	Continent	Nunber	%	Number	%	Avarage	Half
———————————————————————————————-
01	Africa	2,082	31.1	677,674,518	11.8	25,391	323,082
02	Americas	1,001	14.9	59,895,891	0.8	2,000	47,464
03	Asia	2,159	32.2	4,012,678,007	57.9	10,171	1,538,077
04	Europe	239	3.6	1,746,815,517	26.3	220,000	6,294,532
05	Pacific	1,221	18.2	6,798,207	0.1	800	4,675
Total		6,702	100.0	6,503,862,140	100.0	7,000	828,105

Source: Ethnologue

Click Here to see the current world population.

Some languages listed here are technically dialects, not separate languages. Were listed separately because they are mutually incomprehensible, like the language/dialect Chinese, Hindi/Urdu and Arabic – see Notes.

Of the 6.5 billion (at 31/12/2007) of inhabitants of the planet, about 5,8 (89.23%) billion speak a 100 language related below:

The 100 most spoken languages on the world
Ord	Language	Speakers – #	Where the language is spoken?
01	Mandarin Chinese	Nat – 1,081,9 b	China, Malaysia and Taiwan, with significant nucleous of speakers in South Africa, Brunei, Cambodia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries.
		2nd – 38,6 m
		Tot 1,120,5 b
02	English [1]	Nat – 355,1 m	South Africa, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada (except Quebec), Dominica, United States, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong, Fiji Islands, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Jamaica, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malaysia, Malawi, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Namibia, Nigeria, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Kenya, United Kingdom, Rwanda, Samoa, St. Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Sierra Leon, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia and Zimbabwe, with significant nucleous of speakers in Bangladesh, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Philippines, India, Israel, Maldives, Micronesia, Nauru, Pakistan, Singapore and other countries.
		2nd – 198,8 m
		Tot – 553,9 m
03	Spanish	Nat – 298,7 m	Argentina, Bolivia, Canary Islands, Ceuta, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Melilla, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela, with significant nucleous of speakers in Belize, United States, Ivory Coast, Philippines, France and other countries.
		2nd – 49,4 m
		Tot – 348,1 m
04	Hindi [2]	Nat – 288,6 m	India – North, Central and West of this country.
		2nd – 39,2 m
		Tot – 327,8 m
05	Portuguese	Nat – 236,1 m	Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Damão, Diu and Goa (India), Galicia (Spain), Guine-Bissau, Macau (China), Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor, with significant nucleous of speakers in Germany, Canada, Spain, United States, France, Netherlands, UK, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Japan, Paraguay and other countries.
		2nd – 36,8 m
		Tot – 272,9 m
06	Russian [3]	Nat – 164,3 m	Abecasis (Georgia), Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova (Transnistria and Gagauzia) Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Transnistria (Moldova), Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, with significant nucleous of speakers in Israel and other countries.
		2nd – 98,7 m
		Tot – 263,0 m
07	French [4]	Nat – 108,4 m	Belgium (Brussels and Wallonia), Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central Republic African, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Ivory Coast, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Guadeloupe, Equatorial Guinea, France, Polynesia France, Gabon, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti, India (Karikal, Punducherry), Italy (Valle d’Aosta), Lebanon, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Martinique, Mauritius, Monaco, New Caledonia, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland (Berne, Canton of Freiburg, Canton of Geneva, Jura, Neuchâtel, Valais, Vaud), Togo, with significant nucleous of speakers in the United States (Louisiana, especially), Vanuatu, United Kingdom (Guernsey and Jersey) and other countries.
		2nd – 121,3 m
		Tot – 229,7 m
08	Bengali	Nat – 199,7 m	Bangladesh, India – Tripura, West Bengal and Assam.
		2nd – 16,1 m
		Tot – 215,8 m
09	Malay/Indon esian [5]	Nat – 198,5 m	Indonesia, with significant nucleous of speakers in Malaysia, Philippines (South), East Timor, Singapore, New Caledonia and other countries.
		2nd – 4,7 m
		Tot – 203,2 m
10	German	Nat – 108,3 m	Germany, Austria, Belgium (East Canton), France (Alsace and Lorraine region), Italy (South Tyrol of Namibia and South), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland (Oppeln), Switzerland (Aarfau, Appensell Exterior, Appenzell Interior, Basel-Countryside, Basel-City, Bern, Freiburg, Glarus, Lucerne, St. Gall, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, Zug, Zurich, Graubbden, Nidwald, Obwalden, Thurgau, Uri and Valais), with significant nucleous of speakers in United States, Brazil (South), Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Romania, Lithuania, Russia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania and Slovenia.
		2nd – 64,4 m
		Tot – 172,7 m
11	Japanese	Nat – 127,2 m	Japan, Palau (Angaur), Guam, with significant nucleous of speakers in Brazil, United States (Hawaii), Peru, South Korea, Taiwan, Marshall Islands and other countries.
		2nd – 8,1 m
		Tot – 135,3 m
12	Italian	Nat – 73,4 m	Croatia (Istrian County), Slovenia, Italy, San Marino, Switzerland (Graubbden, Ticino), with significant nucleous of speakers in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, United States (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island), France, Greece, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Uruguay, Vatican and other countries.
		2nd – 41,9 m
		Tot – 115,3 m
13	Persia n	Nat – 98,2 m	Afghanistan, Iran and Tajikistan, with significant nucleous of speakers in Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Uzbekistan and other countries.
		2nd – 6,1 m
		Tot – 104,3 m
14	Panjabi	Nat – 92,4 m	India (Panjab) and Pakistan, with significant nucleous of speakers in Kenya and Singapore.
		2nd – 9,8 m
		Tot – 102,2 m
15	Urdu [2]	Nat – 68,9 m	India (Kashmir, New Delhi, Jammu and Uttar Pradesh), Pakistan and Afghanistan, with significant nucleous of speakers in South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, UK, United States, Bahrain, Botswana, Fiji, Mauritius, Malawi, Oman and Qatar.
		2nd – 32,7 m
		Tot – 101,6 m
16	Marathi	Nat – 77,7 m	India (Maharashtra, Daman and Diu, Goa), with significant nucleous of speakers in Islands Mauritius.
		2nd – 13,4 m
		Tot – 91,1 m
17	Turkish	Nat – 72,4 m	Bulgaria (Kurdzhali Province and areas of South and West), Cyprus and Turkey, with significant nucleous of speakers in Australia, Austria, Georgia, Greece, Netherlands, Iran, Moldova, Macedonia, Syria, Azerbaijan and other countries.
		2nd – 17,8 m
		Tot – 90,2 m
18	Telugu	Nat – 72,8 m	India (Andhra Pradesh, district of Yanam), with significant nucleous of speakers in Bahrain, Islands Fiji, Islands Mauritius, Singapore and other countries
		2nd – 8,1 m
		Tot – 80,9 m
19	Eg yptian Arabic [6]	Nat – 48,7 m	Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen, with significant nucleous of speakers in England, United States and other countries.
		2nd – 31,8 m
		Tot – 80,5 m
20	Javanese	Nat – 77,8 m	Indonesia, Java and Bali.
		2nd – 2,5 m
		Tot – 80,3 m
21	Wu Chinese	Nat – 76,4 m	China (Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Xuancheng Anhui), Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong.
		2nd – 1,9 m
		Tot – 78,3 m
22	Korean	Nat – 76,7 m	North Korea, South Korea and China (Yanbian), with significant nucleous of speakers in Australia, United States (Guam, Hawaii, Marianas North), Japan, Brazil and other countries.
		2nd – 1,4 m
		Tot – 78,1 m
23	Thai	Nat – 31,8 m	Thailand and Laos.
		2nd – 41,5 m
		Tot – 73,3 m
24	Vietnamese	Nat – 69,1 m	Vietnam, with significant nucleous of speakers in Australia, Cambodia, United States (California), France (New Caledonia), Laos, Norway, and Vanuatu other countries.
		2nd – 4,1 m
		Tot – 73,2 m
25	Yue Chinese (Canton ese)	Nat – 69,7 m	China (South and Southeast), with significant nucleous of speakers in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other countries.
		2nd – 2,5 m
		Tot – 72,2 m
26	Tamil	Nat – 65,7 m	India (Tamil Nadu, and Karaikal districts of Pondicherry), Singapore, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, with significant nucleous of speakers in Bahrain, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, France (Réunion), Islands Fiji, Mauritius, Malaysia and other countries.
		2nd – 6,1 m
		Tot – 71,8 m
27	Maghrebi Arabic [7]	Nat – 53,5 m	Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya, with significant nucleous of speakers in France, Holland, Italy, Spain and other countries
		2nd – 8,9 m
		Tot – 62,4 m
28	Min Nan Chinese	Nat – 48,2 m	China and Taiwan, with significant nucleous of speakers in Brunei, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
		2nd – 2,7 m
		Tot – 50,9 m
29	Pol ish	Nat – 43,6 m	Poland, with significant nucleous of speakers in Belarus, United States (Connecticut, Illinois, NJ), Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, Germany, Romania, Slovakia, Russia, Brazil and other countries.
		2nd – 6,5 m
		Tot – 50,1 m
30	Gugarati	Nat – 47,4 m	India (Gujarati, Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli), with significant nucleous of speakers in South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Pakistan, United States, England, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Canada.
		2nd – 1,9 m
		Tot – 49,3 m
31	Jin Yu Chinese	Nat – 43,3 m	China and Taiwan.
		2nd – 3,6 m
		Tot – 46,9 m
32	Ukrainian	Nat – 42,7 m	Ukraine and Transnistria (Moldova), with significant nucleous of speakers in Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Brazil, United States, Canada and other countries
		2nd – 3,9 m
		Tot – 46,6 m
33	Ha usa	Nat – 25,2 m	Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Foso, Cameroon, Ghana, Sudan and Togo
		2nd – 16,9 m
		Tot – 42,1 m
34	Kannada	Nat – 33,7 m	India (Karnataka).
		2nd – 8,0 m
		Tot – 41,7 m
35	Pashto	Nat – 31,4 m	Afghanistan (Southeast and Northwest) and Pakistan (West), with significant nucleous of speakers in India.
		2nd – 9,7 m
		Tot – 41,1 m
36	Xiang Chinese	Nat – 37,2 m	China.
		2nd – 2,7 m
		Tot – 39,9 m
37	Levantin e Arabic [8]	Nat – 34,8 m	Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel (and Judea Sesmaria), Gaza Strip and Jordan, with significant nucleous of speakers in Kuwait, Iraq and other countries.
		2nd – 4,5 m
		Tot – 39,3 m
38	Malayalam [9]	Nat – 34,9 m	India (Karalla, Lakshadweep and Mahe) with significant groups of speakers in Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and other countries.
		2nd – 4,2 m
		Tot – 39,1 m
39	Hakka Chinese	Nat – 35,1 m	China, with significant nucleous of speakers in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama, Singapore, Suriname, Taiwan and Thailand
		2nd – 1,2 m
		Tot – 36,3 m
40	Berber	Nat – 31,4 m	Algeria, with significant nucleous of speakers in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sahara West, Mali, France, Belgium, Spain, United States and Canada.
		2nd – 4,6 m
		Tot – 36,0 m
41	Am haric	Nat – 28,2 m	Ethiopia and Israel
		2nd – 7,4 m
		Tot – 35,6 m
42	Oromo	Nat – 33,8 m	Ethiopia and Kenya
		2nd – 1,6 m
		Tot – 35,4 m
43	B urmese	Nat – 33,5 m	Myanmar
		2nd – 1,6 m
		Tot – 35,1 m
44	Oriya	Nat – 32,0 m	India (Orissa), Mendipur (West Bengal), Saraikela Kharsawan district (Jharkhand) and Gujarati.
		2nd – 2,3 m
		Tot – 34,3 m
45	Nepali	Nat – 26,1 m	Nepal, India and Bhutan
		2nd – 7,6 m
		Tot – 33,7 m
46	Sundanese	Nat – 26,8 m	Indonesia
		2nd – 6,8 m
		Tot – 33,6 m
47	Bhojpuri	Nat – 28,7 m	India and Nepal.
		2nd – 4,1 m
		Tot – 32,8 m
48	Tagalo g	Nat – 23,7 m	Philippines (Cuzon’s Southern and Central)
		2nd – 8,2 m
		Tot – 31,9 m
49	Rom anian	Nat – 27,4 m	Romania and Moldova, with significant nucleous of speakers in Serbia, United States and other countries.
		2nd – 3,9 m
		Tot – 31,3 m
50	Kurdish	Nat – 29,8 m	Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria, with significant nucleous of speakers in Egypt, Israel, Iran, Jordan and Lebanon.
		2nd – 1,2 m
		Tot – 31,0 m
51	Haryanvi	Nat – 28,1 m	India (Haryana) and Pakistan
		2nd – 1,8 m
		Tot – 29,9 m
52	Dutch	Nat – 24,8 m	Netherlands, Belgium (North), France (Northeast), Suriname, Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, with significant nucleous of speakers in Germany, Indonesia, South Africa and other countries.
		2nd – 1,7 m
		Tot – 26,5 m
53	Azer baijani	Nat – 24,0 m	Azerbaijan, Iran, parts of neighboring countries such as: Georgia, Russia, Iraq, Turkey and Ukraine.
		2nd – 2,1 m
		Tot – 26,1 m
54	Yoruba	Nat – 23,6 m	Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Sierra Leon
		2nd – 2,3 m
		Tot – 25,9 m
55	Serbo-croatia n	Nat – 22,9 m	Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with significant nucleous of speakers in Albania, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey and Macedonia.
		2nd – 1,6 m
		Tot – 24,5 m
56	Uzbe k	Nat – 21,9 m	Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, with significant nucleous of speakers in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Russia, China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the United States.
		2nd – 1,4 m
		Tot – 23,3 m
57	Gan Chinese	Nat – 20,8 m	China (regions of Fujian, Anhui and Hubei).
		2nd – 1,8 m
		Tot – 22,6 m
58	Assam ese	Nat – 21,5 m	India, Bangladesh and Bhutan
		2nd – 1,0 m
		Tot – 22,5 m
59	Sindhi	Nat – 20,4 m	India and Pakistan (Southeast).
		2nd – 1,8 m
		Tot – 22,2 m
60	Mala gasy	Nat – 17,1 m	Madagascar, France (Reunion), Comoros, Mayotte.
		2nd – 4,7 m
		Tot – 21,8 m
61	Khme	Nat – 19,8 m	Cambodia and Vietnam, with significant nucleous of speakers in Thailand, Taiwan, United States and Australia.
		2nd – 1,3 m
		Tot – 21,1 m
62	Igbo	Nat – 18,4 m	Nigeria
		2nd – 1,9 m
		Tot – 20,3 m
63	Sa’ide Arabic	Nat – 18,3 m	Egypt (south of Cairo to the border with Sudan).
		2nd – 1,4 m
		Tot – 19,7 m
64	Sudanes e Arabic	Nat – 18,1 m	Sudan.
		2nd – 1,5 m
		Tot – 19,6 m
65	Greek	Nat – 14,9 m	Greece and Cyprus, with significant nucleous of speakers in the United Kingdom and the United States.
		2nd – 3,8 m
		Tot – 18,7 m
66	Saraiki	Nat – 17,6 m	Pakistan, with significant nucleous of speakers in India
		2nd – 0,2 m
		Tot – 17,8 m
67	Somali	Nat – 16,3 m	Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti
		2nd – 1,4 m
		Tot – 17,7 m
68	Cebuano	Nat – 16,3 m	Philippines
		2nd – 0,1 m
		Tot – 16,4 m
69	H ungarian	Nat – 14,9 m	Hungary, Austria, Israel, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Serbia
		2nd – 1,3 m
		Tot – 16,2 m
70	Chitag onian	Nat – 14,0 m	Bangladesh and Myanmar.
		2nd – 2,1 m
		Tot – 16,1 m
71	Mesopot amian Arabic	Nat – 13,5 m	Iraq and Syria (South), with significant nucleous of speakers in Iran and Turkey.
		2nd – 2,3 m
		Tot – 15,8 m
72	Zhuang Chinese	Nat – 13,1 m	China
		2nd – 2,2 m
		Tot – 15,3 m
73	Madur ese	Nat – 14,2 m	Madura Island (Indonesia), and Kangean islands and Sapudi in East Java.
		2nd – 1,1 m
		Tot – 15,3 m
74	Fula	Nat – 13,3 m	Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Republic Central Africa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Togo.
		2nd – 1,9 m
		Tot – 15,2 m
75	Shinhala	Nat – 14,0 m	Sri Lanka and India with significant nucleous of speakers in England and the United States.
		2nd – 1,1 m
		Tot – 15,1 m
76	Kazakh	Nat – 10,9 m	Kazakhstan, with significant nucleous of speakers in China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Russia and Iran
		2nd – 2,8 m
		Tot – 13,7 m
77	S wedish	Nat – 9,8 m	Sweden and Finland, with significant nucleous of speakers in the United States, Canada, Argentina and Australia.
		2nd – 3,6 m
		Tot – 13,4 m
78	Marwari	Nat – 12,9 m	India
		2nd – 0,3 m
		Tot – 13,2 m
79	Czec h	Nat – 11,5 m	Czech Republic, with significant nucleous of speakers in Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Israel, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine and the United States.
		2nd – 1,4 m
		Tot – 12,9 m
80	Hiligaynon	Nat – 9,4 m	Philippines (Visayas).
		2nd – 2,7 m
		Tot – 12,1 m
81	Magadhi	Nat – 11,3 m	India (south of Bihar).
		2nd – 0,6 m
		Tot – 11,9 m
82	Haitian Creole	Nat – 8,9 m	Haiti, with significant nucleous of speakers in Canada, United States, France, Republic Dominican, Cuba and Bahamas.
		2nd – 2,7 m
		Tot – 11,6 m
83	Quechua	Nat – 10,9 m	Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia and Argentina.
		2nd – 0,4 m
		Tot – 11,3 m
84	Chhattisgar h	Nat – 11,0 m	India (Chhattisgarh).
		2nd – 0,2 m
		Tot – 11,2 m
85	Uyghur	Nat – 8,3 m	China, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
		2nd – 2,9 m
		Tot – 11,2 m
86	De khni	Nat – 10,4 m	India.
		2nd – 0,7 m
		Tot – 11,1 m
87	Min Bei Chinese	Nat – 8,8 m	China, with significant nucleous of speakers in United States (California).
		2nd – 2,1 m
		Tot – 10,9 m
88	U yghur	Nat – 8,7 m	China (Xinjiang), with significant nucleous of speakers in Afghanistan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Belgium, Canada, United States, Indonesia, Mongolia, Pakistan, UK, Kyrgyz Republic, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan.
		2nd – 2,1 m
		Tot – 10,8 m
89	B elarusian	Nat – 9,8 m	Belarus and Poland.
		2nd – 0,7 m
		Tot – 10,5 m
90	kinyarwanda	Nat – 9,3 m	Rwanda, Congo and Uganda
		2nd – 1,2 m
		Tot – 10,5 m
91	Ilokano	Nat – 8,1 m	Philippines and Hawaii..
		2nd – 2,3 m
		Tot – 10,4 m
92	Hebr ew	Nat – 6,1	Israel, with significant nucleous of speakers in United States, Gibraltar, Canada, Belgium, France, Argentina, UK, Germany, Russia and several other countries.
		2nd – 4,2 m
		Tot – 10,3 m
93	B ulgarian	Nat – 9,7 m	Bulgaria, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Turkey, Serbia and Montenegro and Macedonia.
		2nd – 0,5 m
		Tot – 10,2 m
94	Najdi Arabic	Nat – 9,8 m	Saudi Arabia, with significant nucleous of speaking in Jordan, Iraq and Syria.
		2nd – 0,3 m
		Tot – 10,1 m
95	Zulu	Nat – 9,8 m	South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
		2nd – 0,1 m
		Tot – 9,9 m
96	Akan	Nat – 9,1 m	Ghana and Suriname.
		2nd – 0,2 m
		Tot – 9,3 m
97	Gulf Arabic	Nat – 8,2 m	Kuwait, the Saudi, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman.
		2nd – 0,7 m
		Tot – 8,9 m
98	Shona	Nat – 8,3 m	Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Mozambique.
		2nd – 0,2 m
		Tot – 8,5 m
99	Tatar	Nat – 8,1 m	Russia.
		2nd – 0,3 m
		Tot – 8,4 m
100	Fulfulde	Nat – 7,8 m	Nigeria.
		2nd – 0,5 m
		Tot – 8,3 m
X	Total	Nat– 5.769,6 b	Planet Earth
		2nd – 1.319,2 b
		Tot – 7.088,8 b
Nat = Native, 2nd = Second language and Tot = Total. m = million, b = billion

Notes

[1] English is the second most spoken language on the world (native speakers and others to use as a second language), but is the first language used on most world areas: scientific, commercial, diplomatic, academic, literature, internet, TV, Radio, Newspapers, etc.

[2] The Hindi is listed here separately from the Urdu to be different languages . The Hindi use Devanagari calligraphy, with extensive vocabulary inherited from Sanskrit and Urdu use Nastaliq calligraphy, with extensive vocabulary of Persian-Arabic origin. Despite this thousands of words have understood each other, so some linguists say language is the same – that the call of Hindustan – in two different forms of writing.

[3] A number of speakers of Russian language as a second language is decreasing in recent years due have been abolished “the obligation to study this language in the former USSR satellite countries.”

[4] The large number of people who use French as a second language is justified by scholars as
being a result of several factors, including: “… colonizations in the past, have been the diplomatic language International up to half of the 20th century, rich cultural production, efficient performance of the French alliance, and so on”.

[5] The Malay that in Indonesia is called the Indonesian language is the main language of the peoples who inhabit the Malay peninsula and the Indonesia. It is also called the Malay language in Singapore, Brunei and southern Thailand.

[6] The Egyptian Arabic is the most widespread form of Arabic due to the proliferation of films and other and cultural productions from Cairo (from the early 20th century) and the large number of Egyptian teachers who were hired to teach in several countries, especially in penísula Arabic.

[7] The Arab Maghrebi Arabic, called by the speakers of “Derija” (meaning dialect), is based on Arabic, French and Spanish and has a number of dialects – most understandable among themselves. It is the language/dialect predominant in the region of Maghreb – northern Africa, the Sahara desert and west of the Nile.

[8] Most of the words of Levantine Arabic is Arabic, but hundreds of others are of Turkish, Persian, English, French and Italian.

[9] Malayalam is not Malay, which is spoken in Malaysia.

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04. CIA – World Factbook

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