The most spoken languages
1. Chinese, (Mandarin)
Spoken in Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand
Spoken by 885 million people
2. Spanish
Spoken in Andorra, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, United States,Venezuela
Spoken by 332 million people
3. English
Spoken in Australia, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Guyana, India, Ireland, Israel, Lesotho, Liberia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Tonga, United Kingdom, United states, Vanuatu, Zimbabwe
Spoken by 322 million people.
4. Bengali
Spoken in Bangladesh, India, Singapore
Spoken by 189 million people
5. Hindi
Spoken in India, Nepal, Singapore, South Africa, Uganda
Spoken by 182 million people
6. Portuguese
Spoken in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, France, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal
Spoken by 170 million people
7. Russian
Spoken in China, Israel, Mongolia, Russia
Spoken by 170 million people
8. Japanese
Spoken in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan
Spoken by 125 million people
9. German
Spoken in Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland
Spoken by 98 million people.
10. Chinese, (Wu)
Spoken in China
Spoken by 77.2 million people.
- Javanese - 75.5 million people
- Korean - 75.0 million people
- French - 72.0 million people
- Vietnamese - 67.7 million people
- Telugu - 66.0 million people
- Marathi - 64.8 million people
- Tamil - 63.1 million people
- Turkish - 59.0 million people
- Urdu - 58.0 million people
- Chinese, (Min Nan) - 49.0 million people
- Chinese, (Jinyu) - 45.0 million people
- Gujarati - 44.0 million people
- Polish - 44.0 million people
- Arabic - 42.5 million people
- Ukrainian - 41.0 million people
- Italian - 37.0 million people
- Chinese (Xiang) - 36.0 million people
- Malayalam - 34.0 million people
- Chinese, (Hakka) - 34.0 million people
- Kannada - 33.8 million people
The next few languages in line include western and eastern Panjabi, Sunda, Romanian, Bhojpuri, Azerbaijani, Hausa, Algerian Arabic, Burmese, Serbo-Croatian, Awadhi, Thai and Dutch
this list was made by doing extensive database and spreadsheet work, with a variety of original sources, but mainly an Introduction to Linguistics textbook, and an ethnology database made by one of the professors at my former university. Enjoy!