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Top 5 most-spoken native languages in the world

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Number of native (L1) speakers

Snapshot · 2026-08-09

  1. 1

    Mandarin Chinese

    ~940M

  2. 2

    Spanish

    ~485M

  3. 3

    English

    ~380M

  4. 4

    Hindi

    ~345M

  5. 5

    Portuguese

    ~235M