Popular Languages

International languages sorted by popularity:

  1. English (1.49G)
  2. Mandarin (1.18G)
  3. Hindi (611M)
  4. Spanish (561M)
  5. Fusha (335M)
  6. French (334M)
  7. Bangla (274M)
  8. Portuguese (269M)
  9. Indonesian (255M)
  10. Urdu (246M)
  11. Russian (210M)
  12. German (133M)
  13. Japanese (126M)
  14. Naija (121M)
  15. Masri (118M)
  16. Marathi (99M)
  17. Vietnamese (97M)
  18. Telugu (96M)
  19. Swahili (95M)

United States American languages sorted by popularity:

  1. English (246M)
  2. Spanish (42.0M)
  3. Chinese (3.40M)
  4. Tagalog (1.71M)
  5. Vietnamese (1.52M)
  6. Arabic (1.39M)
  7. French (1.18M)
  8. Korean (1.07M)
  9. Russian (1.04M)
  10. Portuguese (937k)
  11. Haitian (895k)
  12. Hindi (865k)
  13. German (857k)

references

  1. Wikipedia: "Popular Languages (Ethnologue)"
  2. Wikipedia: "USA Languages (Most Common)"

This page is intended as a general guide only — the actual number of users for each language is constantly changing and can vary depending on the reporting source.