Which are the top 5 most important World languages?

Which are the 5 most used languages of the world?

  • I dont mean which languages learn more the people, i mean about the numbers of natives from the language, which are the 5 languages whit the biggest number of natives in the world??? (people who have them as their firts language or mother language) From the most to the less about that 5 that you think or know.

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    I am sure it's: 1.Chinese (937,132,000) 2.Spanish (332,000,000) 3.English (322,000,000) 4.Bengali (189,000,000) 5.Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000) 6.Arabic (174,950,000) (follows closely) (Number of NATIVE speakers in paranthesis) If you want to check it out for yourself and if you need more info, go here: http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm

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Most common Languages of the world today & # of people who speak the languages. 1. Chinese (Mandarin)1,075,000,000 2. English514,000,000 3. Hindustani496,000,000 4. Spanish425,000,000 5. Russian275,000,000 6. Arabic 256,000,000 7. Bengali215,000,000 8. Portuguese194,000,000 9. Malay-Indonesian176,000,000 10. French129,000,000

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The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population: (number of native speakers in parentheses) Chinese* (937,132,000) Spanish (332,000,000) English (322,000,000) Bengali (189,000,000) Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000) * "Chinese" is composed of the total of the following languages/dialects: Mandarin 836,000,000 Xiang 36,015,000 Hakka 34,000,000 Gan 20,580,000 Minbei 10,537,000

tericee

spanish-cinese-english-german-french i am making a guess.i don't if it's correct

heretic

1 - Chinese 2 - Russian 3 - English 4 - Spanish 5 - French

Pasteur30

i think german english spanish french african

genevievepichler

Chinese, English, Spanish, French, German

Mendi8a

English Spanish French Japanese Chinese

manojl17

1st Chinese 2nd English 3rd Spanish 4th Arabic 5th i dnt remember

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spanish, english, french, chinese, italian

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