Geography

Top 10 Most Spoken Languages

List Description:


This list summarizes the most spoken languages in the world by native speakers.


N.B. NATIVE - is a person's FIRST language, not learnt or adopted languages.


Rank


 

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2


3


4


5


6


7


8


9


10

Language



Mandarin


Spanish


English


Hindi


Arabic


Portuguese


Bengali


Russian


Japanese


Punjabi

Native Speakers (in millions)


935


387


365


295


280


204


202


160


127


96

% of World Population


14.1


5.85


5.52


4.46


4.23


3.08


3.05


2.42


1.92


1.44

Suggested Scoring:



1 point


1 point


1 point



Naming a correct language (take it in turns to guess)


Nearest to the number of native speakers (start with the person who named the country)


Nearest to the percentage of the world population that has this as their native langauge (start with person who got the point for closest in tonnes)


MOST POINTS WINS!

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Source:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers