5 most spoken languages ​​in the world

First place: Mandarin - the most spoken language in China (along with Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia) is also, surprisingly, the most spoken language in the world. With 1.35 billion speakers, and between 850 and 950 million native speakers of Mandarin.

English is the second largest language in the world with about 1.2 billion people who can converse around the world. But English can console itself with being the most popular language in the world, since 800 million (two-thirds) of all its speakers have learned it as a second language, while only 400 million speak English as a native language.

Spanish, the language of Spain and almost all the countries of South and Central America (along with about 45 million speakers in the US), is the third most spoken language in the world with about 470 million native Spanish speakers and 550 million speakers in total (not including Israelis who were sold in the 1990s to telenovelas) Argentines).

Hindi (or Hindi), the official language of India, is spoken by some 500 million speakers, of whom 200 million are Hindi speakers and 300 million are Hindi speakers. The reason Hindi is a second popular language is that Hindi is used as a "mediating" language ("Lingua Franca") that bridges the many different languages ​​of India.

Arabic, the official language of 26 countries from Morocco, through Israel to Iraq, is the fifth most spoken language in the world with about 340 million Arabic speakers as a language and another 50 million who learned it as a second language. It should be noted, however, that this figure is somewhat deceptive because there are dozens and even hundreds of different dialects that are sometimes far apart, so that an Arabic speaker from Mauritania will not really be able to understand an Arabic speaker from Qatar.

In fifth place is the French language with a total of 275 million speakers, Indonesian with 270 million, Portuguese with 255 million speakers (mostly in Brazil), Bengali with 250 million speakers (all speak it as a mother tongue) In Bangladesh?) And lastly a favorite of the list of spoken languages: Russian, with about 235 speakers in all.