Top 10 Most Used Modern Languages
These are the 10 most widely spoken modern languages in the world, based on the total number of speakers (native and non-native).
- ๐จ๐ณ Chinese (Mandarin) - Over 1.2 billion speakers
- ๐ช๐ธ Spanish - Over 460 million speakers
- ๐ฌ๐ง English - Over 380 million native speakers, over 1.5 billion total speakers
- ๐ฎ๐ณ Hindi - Over 340 million speakers
- ๐ซ๐ท French - Over 280 million speakers
- ๐ธ๐ฆ Arabic - Over 270 million speakers
- ๐ง๐ฉ Bengali - Over 230 million speakers
- ๐ต๐น Portuguese - Over 220 million speakers
- ๐ท๐บ Russian - Over 150 million speakers
- ๐ฏ๐ต Japanese - Over 125 million speakers