| OTHER COUNTRY RANKS | POPULATION | GEOGRAPHY | ECONOMY | TRANSPORTN| COMM | MILITARY | The 50 Most Widely Spoken Languages (1996) See also World Language Map Rank,Countries2Population3language(in millions) 1. Chinese, MandarinBrunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, S. Africa, Taiwan, Thailand1120 2. EnglishAustralia, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, India, Ireland, Israel, Lesotho, Liberia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, S. Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Tonga, U.K., U.S., Vanuatu, Zimbabwe, many Caribbean states, Zambia.480 3. SpanishAlgeria, Andorra, Argentina, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Rep., Ecuador, El Salvador, Eq. Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Niger, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Togo, Tunisia, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela.332 4. ArabicEgypt, Sudan, ALgeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lybia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, UAE, Oman, Iraq, Lebanon235 5. BengaliBangladesh, India, Singapore189 6. HindiIndia, Nepal, Singapore, S. Africa, Uganda182 7. RussianBelarus, China, Estonia, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, U.S., Uzbekistan180 8. PortugueseAngola, Brazil, Cape Verde, France, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Macau170 9. JapaneseJapan, Singapore, Taiwan125 10. GermanAustria, Belgium, Bolivia, Czech Rep., Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland9811. Chinese, WuChina77.212. JavaneseIndonesia, Malaysia, Singapore75.513. KoreanChina, Japan, N. Korea, S. Korea, Singapore, Thailand7514. FrenchAlgeria, Andorra, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, France, Gabon, Guinea, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Laos, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Monaco, Morocco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Tunisia, Vanuatu, Vietnam7215. TurkishBulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Turkey, Uzbekistan6916. VietnameseChina, Vietnam67.717. TeluguIndia, Singapore66.418. Chinese, Yue(Cantonese)Brunei, China, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam6619. MarathiIndia64.820. TamilIndia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore, S. Africa, Sri Lanka63.121. ItalianCroatia, Eritrea, France, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland5922. UrduAfghanistan, India, Mauritius, Pakistan, S. Africa, Thailand5823. Chinese, Min NanBrunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand4924. Chinese, JinyuChina4525. GujaratiIndia, Kenya, Pakistan, Singapore, S. Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe4426. PolishCzech Rep., Germany, Israel, Poland, Romania, Slovakia4427. UkrainianPoland, Slovakia, Ukraine4128. PersianIran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Oman, Qatar, Tajikistan, U A Emirates37.329. Chinese, XiangChina3630. MalayalamIndia, Singapore3431. Chinese, HakkaBrunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama, Singapore, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand3432. KannadaIndia33.733. OriyaIndia3134. Panjabi, WesternIndia, Pakistan3035. SundaIndonesia2735. Panjabi, EasternIndia, Kenya, Singapore2636. RomanianHungary, Israel, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Ukraine2637. BhojpuriIndia, Mauritius, Nepal2538. Azerbaijani, SouthAfghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey24.440. MaithiliIndia, Nepal24.341. HausaBenin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo24.243. BurmeseBangladesh, Myanmar2244. Serbo-Croatian4Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia2145. Chinese, GanChina20.646. AwadhiIndia, Nepal20.547. ThaiSingapore, Thailand, Malaysia2048. DutchBelgium, France, Netherlands, Suriname2049. YorubaBenin, Nigeria2050. SindhiAfghanistan, India, Pakistan, Singapore19.71. Many of the languages listed are technically dialects, not separate languages. They are listed separately because they differ from each other enough to be mutually unintelligible.2. The countries listed under Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, and Serbo-Croatian do not include those in which less than 1% of the population speaks the language as a first language.3. The population figures refer to first language speakers in all countries and are general estimates.4. Serbo-Croatian is now known variously as Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian, depending on the speakers ethnic or political affiliation.
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