The Most Popular Languages in the World

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全世界一共有近7000种语言。按照使用国家数量和使用人口数量可有以下两种排名方法。而不同统计方法又会有不同排名名次，不必纠结。

The world’s most spoken language by total speakers

Ethnologue suggests the following list, which combines native speakers with non-native speakers:

  1. English (1.121 billion)
  2. Mandarin Chinese (1.107 billion)
  3. Hindi/Urdu (697.4 million)
  4. Spanish (512.9 million)
  5. Arabic (422 million)
  6. French (284.9 million)
  7. Malay (281 million)
  8. Russian (264.3 million)
  9. Bengali (261.8 million)
  10. Portuguese (236.5 million)

（source: https://blog.esl-languages.com/blog/learn-languages/most-spoken-languages-world/)

Most widely spoken by number of countries/dependencies where the language has official status

  1. English (59)
  2. French (29)
  3. Arabic (26)
  4. Spanish (21)
  5. Portuguese (9)

(source同上）

另一个网站上的排名是：

（图片采自：https://assets.weforum.org/editor/9dcNb0GsGOqlnfLtpjnxZiEMnuZXQT5Y_FhktutPF0w.jpg）

还有不同的统计排名：

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