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Most Popular Languages
There are around 6700 languages in the world, although some are only found in remote regions where they are spoken only by a small group of people. The top ten languages of the world by number and percentage of the world’s population are:
| 1. |
Chinese Mandarin |
882,475,389 |
13.69% |
| 2. |
Spanish |
325,529,636 |
5.05% |
| 3. |
English |
311,992,760 |
4.84% |
| 4. |
Hindi |
181,780,905 |
2.82% |
| 5. |
Portuguese |
178,557,840 |
2.77% |
| 6. |
Bengali |
172,756,322 |
2.68% |
| 7. |
Russian |
146,327,183 |
2.27% |
| 8. |
Japanese |
128,278,015 |
1.99% |
| 9. |
German |
96,047,358 |
1.49% |
| 10. |
Chinese Wu |
77,998,190 |
1.21% |
In the past European languages such as French, Spanish, Italian and German were popular, but the choices of languages to study these days are changing and Asian languages such as Japanese and Chinese are popular.
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