Language (idea)

The most spoken languages

 1. Chinese, (Mandarin)

Spoken in Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand

Spoken by 885 million people

 2. Spanish

Spoken in Andorra, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, United States,Venezuela

Spoken by 332 million people

 3. English

Spoken in Australia, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Guyana, India, Ireland, Israel, Lesotho, Liberia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Tonga, United Kingdom, United states, Vanuatu, Zimbabwe

Spoken by 322 million people.

 4. Bengali

Spoken in Bangladesh, India, Singapore

Spoken by 189 million people

 5. Hindi

Spoken in India, Nepal, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda

Spoken by 182 million people

 6. Portuguese

Spoken in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, France, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal

Spoken by 170 million people

 7. Russian

Spoken in China, Israel, Mongolia, Russia

Spoken by 170 million people

 8. Japanese

Spoken in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan

Spoken by 125 million people

 9. German

Spoken in Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland

Spoken by 98 million people.

10. Chinese, (Wu)

Spoken in China

Spoken by 77.2 million people.

11. Javanese - 75.5 million people
12. Korean - 75.0 million people
13. French - 72.0 million people
14. Vietnamese - 67.7 million people
15. Telugu - 66.0 million people
16. Marathi - 64.8 million people
17. Tamil - 63.1 million people
18. Turkish - 59.0 million people
19. Urdu - 58.0 million people
20. Chinese, (Min Nan) - 49.0 million people
21. Chinese, (Jinyu) - 45.0 million people
22. Gujarati - 44.0 million people
23. Polish - 44.0 million people
24. Arabic - 42.5 million people
25. Ukrainian - 41.0 million people
26. Italian - 37.0 million people
27. Chinese (Xiang) - 36.0 million people
28. Malayalam - 34.0 million people
29. Chinese, (Hakka) - 34.0 million people
30. Kannada - 33.8 million people

The next few languages in line include western and eastern Panjabi, Sunda, Romanian, Bhojpuri, Azerbaijani, Hausa, Algerian Arabic, Burmese, Serbo-Croatian, Awadhi, Thai and Dutch