We factor in both native and non-native speakers to determine the largest language in the world. Also included is our current list of the world's four most spoken languages.

Sep 1, 2025 · What are the most widespread first languages? Check out the 25 most spoken native or mother tongue in the world.

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. For a list that also counts people …

This is a list of languages by number of native speakers. All such rankings of human languages ranked by their number of native speakers should be used with caution, because it is not …

Over 88% of people use one of these languages as their native tongue, and many hundreds of millions more use them as second languages. This ranking accounts for both, showing the …

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a comprehensive reference work that provides information and statistics for all of the world’s known living languages. Since 1951, Ethnologue has been …

Of over 7,000 languages globally, these are the 25 most spoken languages in the world. The number includes native and second languages.

Ethnologue is a big book and website that lists languages from all over the world. Their 2023 edition (which came out in 2024) shares which languages have at least 50 million native …

Over 88% of people speak one of these languages as their native tongue, and many hundreds of millions more speak them as second languages. This ranking accounts for both, showing the …

Human languages ranked by their number of native speakers are as follows. All such rankings should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic …