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 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. Discover the most spoken languages 2025 Updated data, global trends, and fascinating insights into the world's most widely used languages. 10 most common spoken languages in the us Ranked today, the number of people speaking a language other than english at home has increased significantly, growing threefold (over 190%) between 1980 and 2019 To put that in perspective, the overall u.s
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