Which languages have the most speakers

Listed below are the languages with the most speakers. If you choose to learn one of these, you will have plenty of people to talk to!

1. Mandarin Chinese: 1.05 billion
2. English: 508 million
3. Hindi: 487 million
4. Spanish: 417 million
5. Russian: 277 million
6. Arabic: 221 million
7. Bengali: 211 million
8. Portuguese: 191 million
9. French: 128 million
10. German: 128 million
11. Japanese: 126 million
12. Urdu: 104 million

These figures show the approximate total number of speakers for each language, including native and second language speakers. They do not include the numbers of people who have learnt them as foreign languages