The 25 most-spoken languages in the world
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-> Rank
-> Language
-> Every xth person speaks that language*
-> percentage*
-> This language is named in that number of countries Speakers in million 
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1 Chinese 5. 21.7 13 1,276.0 
2 English 18. 6.0 29 350.6 
3 Spanish 19. 5.8 24 340.7 
4 Hindi 22. 5.0 8 291.6 
5 Arabic 26. 4.2 25 249.6 
6 Bengali 27. 4.0 3 235.4 
7 Portuguese 33. 3.3 5 193.6 
8 Russian 39. 2.8 2 164.0 
9 Japanese 49. 2.2 2 128.9 
10 Pandschabi 62. 1.7 2 102.1 
11 Java 65. 1.7 3 97.4 
12 German 70. 1.5 10 90.5 
13 Marathi 77. 1.4 1 82.9 
13 Telugu 77. 1.4 1 82.9 
15 Tamil 80. 1.4 5 79.7 
16 Vietnamese 80. 1.3 2 79.3 
17 Korean 80. 1.3 2 79,2 
18 Trkisch 97. 1,1 6 65.4 
19 Urdu 100. 1.1 6 63.8 
20 French 107. 1.0 14 59.3 
21 Italian 110. 1.0 9 58.1 
22 Gujurati 123. 0.9 1 51.8 
23 Malagalam 151. 0.7 2 42.2 
24 Kannada 154. 0.7 1 41.5 
24 Oringa 154. 0.7 1 41.5 
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Totally 423 languages 
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