text: how manay languages in the world are most popular?   can you restate your question? do you mean: list popular languages based on the population of people speaking them? if so, then i think chinese would take the prize, followed by spanish, english, russian, and so on.  here's the list from about.com:  1. mandarin chinese - 882,475,389 2. spanish - 325,529,636 3. english - 311,992,760 4. hindi - 181,780,905 5. portuguese - 178,557,840 6. bengali - 172,756,322 7. russian - 146,327,183 8. japanese - 128,278,015 9. german - 96,047,358 10. wu chinese - 77,998,190