15 Most Spoken Languages In The World!

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The planet's most popularly languages! From the speech spoken in highly populous Asian nations to the expanse of Romantic and Germanic tongues out of Europe.

#15 Marathi
Spoken by approximately 95.3 million people worldwide, Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly used by the Marathi people of Maharashtra, India. Over 83.1 million of those utilizing the language are natives to the west Indian region, including occupants of the states of Gujarat, Goa, Karnataka and others. Meanwhile, 12.2 million speakers claim Marathi as a second language. It remains primarily used in India, though migrants have taken it abroad.
#14 Swahili
This Bantu language is native to Africa and traditionally spoken by the Swahili people of the same name. Sixteen million speakers call Swahili their first language, while an additional 82.3 million have learned it as a secondary tongue. Speakers of this language can be found all across the African continent, from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique to Uganda, Zambia and Madagascar. While it is classified as a part of the Niger-Congo family of languages, Swahili is often referred to as a mixed language due to the many words loaned to it from Arabic. Much of the Swahili population has been historically Muslim and as a result, it’s only natural for the languages to blend together. Due to its overwhelming popularity, Swahili was one of the first African languages to have technological applications built for its use and teaching.
#13 Japanese
This East Asian tongue is uniquely of the Japonic language family and is spoken by approximately 128 million people worldwide. Linguists maintain that it has no direct relation to neighboring languages like Chinese and Korean, however influence from these languages is evident in modern Japanese, both verbally and in writing. Another major influence on modern Japanese is the growing use of European and English loanwords, which increased exponentially following the end of Japan’s own elective isolation. The majority of Japanese speakers are native to the country and treat it as their first language, while just 121,500 people have learned it as a secondary speech. Despite the relatively little use of the language outside of Japan, dozens of dialects have developed across the island nation.
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English is the language of business. No brainer why its number one.

ruddigerburns
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My current town are all Americans of English descent, one household are people from Quebec, they can speak French and English, they speak English publicly, not sure if they speak French among themselves or not, I would assume so, but I am not sure. A couple people learned Spanish, but never actually use it other than one month when workers come up for the harvest.
My home town was mostly Americans of Irish descent, everyone also spoke English. A few of the older folks knew Gaelic, but I never remember them actively speaking it in casual conversations let alone in public. Maybe they did among themselves, not sure, I was a kid so I didn't know what old people did lol.

DrewPicklesTheDark
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Where is the Turkic language? Turkic not only in Turkey. It is the mother tongue of all Turkic and Turkic peoples living in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Cyprus, Russia, Balkans, Mongolia, China and Europe. It is spoken by a total of 250 million native speakers and 200 million of them are of ethnic Turkic origin. It belongs to the Altaic language family. 🇹🇷🇦🇿🇹🇲🇺🇿🇰🇿🇰🇬🇨🇾

fatihmetecaliskan
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Almost all of these languages are either nation-centric or region-centric (including Hindi and Chinese)...Languages such as English, French, Spanish, and Arabic are more widespread, and these should be ones that you should consider as a second language...Debido a que soy de Texas, y casada con una mujer latina, soy fluido en español...

Hillers
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Greek language is the most underrated of all. Such beauty, that if you dont try to love it, you miss something.Just search some information on internet. Especially ancient Greek 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷💙💙💙💙💙

christinach
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The country of ColOmbia is spelled with an O instead of a U. The University of ColUmbia in NYC is with U as also Washington DC which stands for District of ColUmbia in the USA is with a U. None of the latter are related to the country in South America.

stevenp
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Missing Punjabi while most other lists include Lahndi/Punjabi . This is not a real list

amitojsingh
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I don’t want Mandarin Chinese to be the most popular, it should be English

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