Most Spoken Languages by Native Speakers
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Most Spoken Languages by Native Speakers
Ranked by native speakers, English falls to third. Its global reach comes from the roughly one billion people who speak it as a second language, who are not counted here. Mandarin's total is itself a simplification, since "Chinese" covers several mutually unintelligible varieties. Hindi and Bengali counts shift depending on which closely related dialects each source folds in.
Key Findings
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Mandarin Chinese leads with 920 in All Time.
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Average value in All Time: 357 · median: 285.
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Gap in All Time: Mandarin Chinese is 7.4× larger than Japanese.
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