Top languages by population per Nationalencyklopedin Rank Language Native speakers in millions 2007 (2010) Fraction of world population (2007) Mandarin (entire branch) 935 (955) 14.1 % Spanish 390 (405) 5.85 % English 365 (360) 5.52 % Hindi 295 (310) 4.46 % 5 Arabic 280 (295) 4.23 % 6 Portuguese 205 (215) 3.08 % 7 Bengali (Bangla) 200 (205) 3.05 % 8 Russian 160 (155) 2.42 % 9 Japanese 125 (125) 1.92 % 10 Punjabi 95 (100) 1.44 % 11 German 92 (95) 1.39 % 12 Javanese 82 1.25 % 13 Wu (e.g. Shanghainese) 80 1.20 % 14 Malay (inc. Malaysian and Indonesian) 77 1.16 % 15 Telugu 76 1.15 % 16 Vietnamese 76 1.14 % 17 Korean 76 1.14 % 18 French 75 1.12 % 19 Marathi 73 1.10 % 20 Tamil 70 1.06 % 21 Urdu 66 0.99 % 22 Turkish 63 0.95 % 23 Italian 59 0.90 % 24 Yue (incl. Cantonese) 59 0.89 % 25 Thai 56 0.85 % 26 Gujarati 49 0.74 % 27 Jin 48 0.72 % 28 Southern Min (incl. Hokkien and Teochew) 47 0.71 % 29 Persian 45 0.68 % 30 Polish 40 0.61 % 31 Pashto 39 0.58 % 32 Kannada 38 0.58 % 33 Xiang (Hunanese) 38 0.58 % 34 Malayalam 38 0.57 % 35 Sundanese 38 0.57 % 36 Hausa 34 0.52 % 37 Odia (Oriya) 33 0.50 % 38 Burmese 33 0.50 % 39 Hakka 31 0.46 % 40 Ukrainian 30 0.46 % 41 Bhojpuri 29 0.43 % 42 Tagalog (Filipino) 28 0.42 % 43 Yoruba 28 0.42 % 44 Maithili 27 0.41 % 45 Uzbek 26 0.39 % 46 Sindhi 26 0.39 % 47 Amharic 25 0.37 % 48 Fula 24 0.37 % 49 Romanian 24 0.37 % 50 Oromo 24 0.36 % 51 Igbo 24 0.36 % 52 Azerbaijani 23 0.34 % 53 Awadhi 22 0.33 % 54 Gan Chinese 22 0.33 % 55 Cebuano (Visayan) 21 0.32 % 56 Dutch 21 0.32 % 57 Kurdish 21 0.31 % 58 Serbo - Croatian 19 0.28 % 59 Malagasy 18 0.28 % 60 Saraiki 17 0.26 % 61 Nepali 17 0.25 % 62 Sinhalese 16 0.25 % 63 Chittagonian 16 0.24 % 64 Zhuang 16 0.24 % 65 Khmer 16 0.24 % 66 Turkmen 16 0.24 % 67 Assamese 15 0.23 % 68 Madurese 15 0.23 % 69 Somali 15 0.22 % 70 Marwari 14 0.21 % 71 Magahi 14 0.21 % 72 Haryanvi 14 0.21 % 73 Hungarian 13 0.19 % 74 Chhattisgarhi 12 0.19 % 75 Greek 12 0.18 % 76 Chewa 12 0.17 % 77 Deccan 11 0.17 % 78 Akan 11 0.17 % 79 Kazakh 11 0.17 % 80 Northern Min 10.9 0.16 % 81 Sylheti 10.7 0.16 % 82 Zulu 10.4 0.16 % 83 Czech 10.0 0.15 % 84 Kinyarwanda 9.8 0.15 % 85 Dhundhari 9.6 0.15 % 86 Haitian Creole 9.6 0.15 % 87 Eastern Min (inc. Fuzhounese) 9.5 0.14 % 88 Ilocano 9.1 0.14 % 89 Quechua 8.9 0.13 % 90 Kirundi 8.8 0.13 % 91 Swedish 8.7 0.13 % 92 Hmong 8.4 0.13 % 93 Shona 8.3 0.13 % 94 Uyghur 8.2 0.12 % 95 Hiligaynon / Ilonggo (Visayan) 8.2 0.12 % 96 Mossi 7.6 0.11 % 97 Xhosa 7.6 0.11 % 98 Belarusian 7.6 0.11 % 99 Balochi 7.6 0.11 % 100 Konkani 7.4 0.11 % Total 5,610 85 %
which is the first most spoken language in the world
Mandarin