List of top 50 most spoken languages around the World

The following list of 50 most spoken languages across the world has been taken
from http://www.wikipedia.org. We understand that this list may not be 100%
accurate but serves a good enough purpose for our needs.

Language Ethnologue Encarta Rank

(Estimate) (Estimate)

Mandarin 845,234,000 800,000,000 1

Spanish 329,000,000 358,000,000 2
English 328,000,000 350,000,000 3
Hindi/Urdu 182,000,000 Hindi, 200,000,000 Hindi, 4
60,600,000 Urdu 40,000,000 Urdu
Arabic 221,000,000 150,000,000 5
Bengali 181,000,000 170,000,000 6
Portuguese 178,000,000 150,000,000 7
Russian 144,000,000 160,000,000 8
Japanese 122,000,000 126,000,000 9
German 90,300,000 100,000,000 10
Javanese 84,600,000 70,000,550 11
Punjabi 78,300,000 70,000,000 12
Wu 77,200,000 90,000,000 13
Telugu 69,800,000 14
Marathi 68,100,000 70,000,000 15
French 67,800,000 70,000,000 16
Vietnamese 68,600,000 60,000,000 17
Korean 66,300,000 60,000,000 18
Tamil 65,700,000 50,000,000 19
Italian 61,700,000 60,000,000 20
Turkish 58,000,000 77,000,000 21
Cantonese 55,500,000 70,000,000 22
Tagalog 48.9 million 17 million (2006) 23
Gujarati 46.5 million 46.1 million 24
Min 46,200,000 -- 25
Maithili 45,000,000 24,191,900 26
Polish 40,000,000 44 million 27
Ukrainian 39,400,000 47 million 28
Malay 39,100,000 23.6 million (2006) 29
Bhojpuri 38,500,000 26,254,000 30
Kannada 38,400,000 38,400,000 31
Xiang 36,000,000 32
Malayalam 35,706,000 35,706,000 33
Sunda 34,000,000 27 million 34
Burmese 32,300,000 32,300,000 35
Oriya 31,700,000 32.3 million 36
Persian 31.3 million 31.3 million 37
Berber 30,000,000 -- 38
Hakka 30,000,000 -- 39
Hausa 24,200,000 24.2 million (2006) 40
Romanian 23,400,000 26,265,555 41
Indonesian 23.2 million 17.1 million 42
Azerbaijani 20.1 million 31.4 million 43
Dutch 21,700,000 20 million (2006) 44
Gan 21 million -- 45
Thai 46.3 million (2006) 46.1 million (2006) 46
Yoruba 20,000,000 20 million (2006) 47
Sindhi 19,720,000 19,720,000 (2006) 48
Pashto 19,000,000 26,811,657 49
Uzbek 18,466,000 20.1 million (2006) 50