Although there are no universally agreed statistics on the number of speakers of a language, there are some sources that count the number of speakers of a language as a mother tongue, and others add speakers of it as a second language.
Ranking of the world's languages in terms of prevalence Infographic: The ranking of the most widespread languages in the world.
Among the most famous global statistics is the book "World Facts" issued by US intelligence, "Encarta" and "Ethnology".
Most of the statistics and sources have unanimously arranged a list of ten languages in the world that are the most prevalent in terms of the number of speakers and their percentage of the world population. Here is this list from bottom to top:
10- The German language is ranked tenth
It is spoken by 2.77% of the world's population, and it belongs to the West Germanic languages, and is considered one of the most common mother tongues in the European Union, and among the most famous countries that speak this language, Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland and Belgium.
9- The French language is ranked ninth
The proportion of the population speaking it is 3.05% of the world's population, and 32 countries use it as an official language. Most of those who speak French as a native language live in France, where the language originated, and the rest are distributed between Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Africa, Luxembourg and Monaco.
8- In the eighth place is the Bengali language
The number of its speakers out of the world population is 3.19%, of whom about 120 million people are the total population of Bangladesh, and it is also the language of West Bengal state in India, and is considered one of the world's most widespread languages. It is one of the Indo-Aryan languages, such as Hindi, Urdu and Sindhi, and its origin is Sanskrit.
7- The Portuguese language is ranked seventh
The number of its speakers is 3.26% of the world population, distributed in Brazil, Portugal, Macau, Angola, Venezuela and Mozambique.
This language spread throughout the world during the emergence of Portugal as a colonial power in the 15th and 16th centuries, and spread from Brazil to Macau in China and Goa in India. Today it is one of the main languages in the world, it is also the largest language in South America in terms of the number of speakers, and it is also a main language in a number of African countries, and it is the official language in 9 countries.
6- In sixth place is the Russian language
The percentage of speakers is 3.95%, and they are distributed in many countries of the former Soviet Union, including Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and others.
It is the most widespread Slavic language, one of the most widespread languages in the world, and one of the official languages of the United Nations, and it is an unofficial language, but it is widely spoken in Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and to a lesser extent, in other countries that were the constituent republics of the Union Soviet, and it is considered the most geographically spread language in Eurasia.
5- In fifth place is the Spanish language
The number of its speakers in the world is 6.25%, and they number nearly 400 million people, and it is spoken in all of Central and South America countries, in addition to Spain, Cuba and parts of the United States of America.
4- In the fourth place is the Arabic language
The number of speakers in the world is 6.6%, and it is one of the oldest languages in the world, and is spoken by the majority of the people of the Middle East and North Africa, especially the inhabitants of all Arab countries. Moreover, millions of people learn Arabic because it is the language of the Holy Quran, and there are millions of Muslims in other countries who also speak Arabic.
In 1974 it was adopted as the sixth official language of the United Nations.
3- In the third place is the Hindi language
The number of its speakers is approximately 11.51% of the world's population, and it is the official language in India and the Fiji Islands (Hindustani), and outside India it is spoken in Nepal, South Africa, Mauritius, Yemen, Uganda, and even the United States.
2- In second place is Mandarin (Chinese)
The number of its speakers is 18.05%, and their number exceeds nearly a billion, and it is the language of China with the largest population in the world, and the Chinese language does not have an alphabet, but rather they use illustrative symbols, each word has its own pictogram.
It is also spoken in Taiwan and Singapore, and it is worth noting that Mandarin contains a large number of dialects.
1- In the first place is the English language
The number of its speakers in the world is about 25%, and their number exceeds 1.8 billion people, and it is the official language of many countries, and its speakers hail from all parts of the world, including New Zealand, the United States, Australia, England, Zimbabwe, the Caribbean, Hong Kong, South Africa and Canada. In addition, millions of other people speak English as a second language, as it is the most popular language in the world.
German is the official language of other countries in addition to Germany, including Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. Additionally, it is one of the most widely taught languages in the whole globe. As was said in other postings, there are several advantages to beginning the study of a second language at an early age. To converse (write, talk, and listen) fluently in a foreign language requires not just time, but also at least 15 years of formal instruction.
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