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Top 10 most spoken languages in the world
Daily Tens #59 · Thursday, September 10, 2026 · Ranked by total speakers, first and second language combined
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The answers
- 1 English
- 2 Mandarin Chinese
- 3 Hindi
- 4 Spanish
- 5 French
- 6 Arabic
- 7 Bengali
- 8 Portuguese
- 9 Russian
- 10 Urdu
Ranking method
- Metric
- Total speakers, first and second language combined
- Data through
- 2023
- Source
- Ethnologue
- Notes
- Counting only native speakers gives a different order, led by Mandarin Chinese. Dialect continua are grouped as single languages.
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