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most spoken

In absolute terms, Mandarin is the world’s most spoken language…

 first language speakers
in all countries
(millions)*		total language
users
(millions)*
Chinese (Mandarin)1,1001,120
English400508
Spanish400472
Hindi385487
Arabic210260
Bangla (Bengali)190250
Russian180320
Portuguese180200
Japanese125133
German100125
French901,120
Others1,100265



* Here we refer to the largest estimations made: others assume the number of speakers being smaller.
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