It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect For example, while arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on modern standard arabic, other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties. Almost half of the world’s population claim one of only ten languages as their mother tongue So who’s in the top 10 most spoken languages? The second most common language spoken in the united states is spanish or spanish creole, which over than 43 million people spoke at home in 2023. Chances are, if you've seen a website or blog listing the largest or most spoken languages, it was from one iteration or another of our list.
The world’s 8 billion inhabitants speak thousands of languages, but most of them are spoken by small populations About 5 billion people are native speakers of just 25 languages Below is a list of the 25 languages with the highest number of native speakers, according to data from the ethnologue language catalog in the early 2020s.
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