We will be looking at the top 10 spoken languages throughout the entire world in our modern time of 2019. We have so many different kinds of people in this world and many of them speak languages that others may not understand. It is good for people to know what the top languages are and to learn some of them, because if you visit places around the world it will allow you to fit in and enjoy your travels more.
1. Mandarin Chinese (1.1 billion speakers)
number of native speakers:897 million
number of non-native speakers:193 million
total speakers:1.09 billion
name in the language itself: (Putonghua)
language family: Sino-Tibetan
2. English (989 million speakers)
number of native speakers:371 million
number of non native speakers:611 million
total number of speakers:983 million
language-family: Germanic, a subfamily of Indo-European.
related to: German, Dutch, Frisian
3. Hindustani (544 million speakers)
number of native speakers: 329 million
number of non-natives: 215 million
total number of speakers: 544 million
language family: Indo-Aryan, a subfamily of Indo-European.
related to: Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Kashmir, Nepali
4. Spanish (527 million)
number of native speakers:436 million
number of non speakers:91 million
total number of speakers:527 million
language family:romance,a subfamily of Indo-European.
related to: French, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian
5. Arabic (422 million)
number of native speakers: 290 million
number of non natives: 132 million
total number of speakers: 422 million
languages family: Semitic, a subfamily of Afro -Asiatic
related to: Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic
6. Malay (281 million)
number of native speakers:77 million
number of non natives:204 million
total number of speakers:281 million
languages family: Austronesian
related to: Javanese, Tagalog
7. Russian (267 million)
number of native speakers:153 million
number of non natives:113 million
total number of speakers:267 million
languages family:east Slavic, a subfamily of Indo-European
related to: Ukrainian, Belorussian
8. Bengali (261 million)
number of native speakers:242 million
number of non natives:19 million
total number of speakers:261 million
language family: Indo-Aryan,a subfamily of Indo-European.
related to: Hindustani, Punjabi, Marathi, Kashmir, Nepali
9. Portuguese (299 million)
number of native speakers:218 million
number of non natives:11 million
total number of speakers:299 million
language family:romance,a subfamily of Indo-European.
related to: French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian
10.french (299 million)
number of native speakers:76 million
number of non natives:153 million
total numbers of speakers:229 million
language family:romance,a sub branch of Indo-European
related to: le Francais