Most Spoken Languages of the World

	Family	Script(s) Used	Speakers (Millions)	Where Spoken (Major)
1	Mandarin	Sino-Tibetan	Chinese Characters	1151	China, Malaysia, Taiwan
2	English	Indo-European	Latin	1000	USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
3	Spanish	Indo-European	Latin	500	Mexico, Central and South America, Spain
4	Hindi	Indo-European	Devanagari	490	North and Central India
5	Russian	Indo-European	Cyrillic	277	Russia, Central Asia
6	Arabic	Afro-Asiatic	Arabic	255	Middle East, Arabia, North Africa
7	Portuguese	Indo-European	Latin	240	Brazil, Portugal, Southern Africa
8	Bengali	Indo-European	Bengali	215	Bangladesh, Eastern India
9	French	Indo-European	Latin	200	France, Canada, West Africa, Central Africa
10	Malay, Indonesian	Malayo-Polynesian	Latin	175	Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
11	German	Indo-European	Latin	166	Germany, Austria, Central Europe
12	Japanese	Altaic	Chinese Characters and 2 Japanese Alphabets	132	Japan
13	Farsi (Persian)	Indo-European	Nastaliq	110	Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia
14	Urdu	Indo-European	Nastaliq	104	Pakistan, India
15	Punjabi	Indo-European	Gurumukhi	103	Pakistan, India
16	Wu	Sino-Tibetan	Chinese Characters	90	China
17	Vietnamese	Austroasiatic	Based on Latin	86	Vietnam, China
18	Javanese	Malayo-Polynesian	Javanese	85	Indonesia
19	Tamil	Dravidian	Tamil	78	Southern India, Sri Lanka, Malyasia
20	Korean	Altaic	Hangul	78	Korean Peninsula
21	Turkish	Altaic	Latin	75	Turkey, Central Asia
22	Telugu	Dravidian	Telugu	74	Southern India
23	Marathi	Indo-European	Devanagari	72	Western India
24	Italian	Indo-European	Latin	62	Italy, Central Europe
25	Thai	Sino-Tibetan	Thai	60	Thailand, Laos
26	Burmese	Sino-Tibetan	Burmese	56	Myanmar
27	Cantonese	Sino-Tibetan	Chinese Characters	55	Southern China
28	Kannada	Dravidian	Kannada	47	Southern India
29	Gujarati	Indo-European	Gujarati	46	Western India, Kenya
30	Polish	Indo-European	Latin	46	Poland, Central Europe