Most Spoken Languages

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  English

  Numbers of speakers (millions): 1,582

  Family: Indo-European

  Branch: Germanic

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  Mandarin Chinese

  Numbers of speakers (millions): 1,184

  Family: Sino-Tibetan

  Branch: Sinitic

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  Hindi

  Numbers of speakers (millions): 609

  Family: Indo-European

  Branch: Indo-Aryan

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  Spanish

  Numbers of speakers (millions): 558

  Family: Indo-European

  Branch: Romance

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  Modern Standard Arabic

  Numbers of speakers (millions): 335

  Family: Afro-Asiatic

  Branch: Semitic

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  French

  Numbers of speakers (millions): 312

  Family: Indo-European

  Branch: Romance

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  Bengali

  Numbers of speakers (millions): 284

  Family: Indo-European

  Branch: Indo-Aryan

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  Portuguese

  Numbers of speakers (millions): 267

  Family: Indo-European

  Branch: Romance

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  Russian

  Numbers of speakers (millions): 253

  Family: Indo-European

  Branch: Balto-Slavic

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  Indonesian

  Numbers of speakers (millions): 252

  Family: Austronesian

  Branch: Malayo-Polynesian