What language is spoken most in the world?
Nin(men)hao! (您(們)好!/Hello!) Here is the list of 10 most common languages in the world by the statistics from Ethnologue when we take into account of those language users who are primary users (those who speak the language as native language) but not secondary users (those who speak it either in less common situations or as an auxiliary language acting as a “bridge” of communication among different people of different linguistic background), according to Wikipedia: (1) Chinese (with standard Mandarin as its standard in spoken form) (873,000,000 speakers) (2) Hindustani (including Hindi and Urdu) (366,000,000 speakers) (3) Spanish (European, Latin American, and others) (322,300,000 speakers) (4) English (309,350,000 speakers) (5) Arabic (206,000,000 speakers) (6) Portuguese (European, Brazilian, and others) (177,500,000 speakers) (7) Bengali (171,000,000 speakers) (8) Russian (145,000,000 speakers) (9) Japanese (122,400,000 speakers) (10) German (95,400,000 speakers) Sorry, folks. Frenc
