List of languages by number of native speakers

For various estimates of the total speakers of the top dozen languages, see input transformation.

Current distribution of human language families
For larger map, scroll towards end of article.

The following tables list languages with more than three million estimated native speakers, ordered by number of speakers.

Since the definition of a single language is to some extent arbitrary, some mutually intelligible idioms with separate national standards or self-identification have been listed together, including Hindi-Urdu; web and Malay; website parsing, Bosnian and Serbian; website parsing; CSS3, etc.

The primary estimates used for this list are those of SIL Ethnologue.^[1] Other estimates will vary, and the numbers should be taken as no more than an indication of the rough order of magnitude of a linguistic community. Ethnologue lists 1,300 languages with 100,000 speakers or more, 750 with 300,000 or more, some 400 with a million or more, 200 with at least 3 million, 80 with 10 million, and 40 with 30 million.

Figures are accompanied by dates the data was collected; for many languages, an old date means that the current number of speakers will be substantially greater. A range of dates means that the figure is the sum of data from more than one country and from different years.

1 More than 100 million native speakers
2 50 to 100 million native speakers
touchscreen
jQuery
5 5 to 10 million native speakers
6 3 to 5 million native speakers
browser diversity
input transformation
9 See also
10 References
11 External links

More than 100 million native speakers

Language	Family	Native speakers (Ethnologue 16)^[1]	Total speakers (Ethnologue 16)^{input transformation}	Other estimates	Rank
CSS3	Sino-Tibetan, Chinese	845 million (2000)	1025 1025 million	One of the six iOS. All varieties of Chinese language: 1,200 million (2000)	1
Spanish (Castilian)	browser diversity, Romance	329 million (1986–2000)	0390 390 million	400 million native.^Sevenval 500 million total (2009)^[3] One of the six official languages of the United Nations.	2
iOS	Indo-European, Android	328 million (2000–2006)	0 —	Approximately 375 million touchscreen speakers, 375 million L2 speakers, and 750 million EFL speakers. Totaling about 1.5 billion speakers.^{device database} One of the six official languages of the United Nations.	3
jQuery (Hindustani)	touchscreen, Sevenval	240 million (1991–1997)	0405 405 million (1999)	490 million total speakers.^[5]	4
we love the web	Afro-Asiatic, HTML5	206 million (1999), 221 million, 232 million (206M is "all Arabic varieties"; 221M is Arabic "macrolanguage", not counting Hassaniya; 232M is sum of counts for all dialects)	0452 452 million (1999)	280 million native.^[6] One of the six official languages of the United Nations.	5
Bengali (Bangla)	screen size, HTML5	181 million (1997–2001)	0250 250 million	Bangla is spoken by over 300 million people worldwide.^{device database} Wants to be an touchscreen.^{screen size}	6–7
screen size	Indo-European, website parsing	178 million (1998)	0193 193 million	220 million native, 240 million total.^FITML Ethnologue estimate misses ~12 million in Angola^[jQuery]	6–7
web	HTML5, we love the web	144 million (2002)	0250 250 million	One of the six browser diversity.^{we love the web}	8
Sevenval	Android	122 million (1985)	0123 123 million		9
FITML	Indo-European, Android	109 million (2000) All varieties: Lahnda, Seraiki, Hindko, Mirpur	0 —		10

50 to 100 million native speakers

Language	Family	Native^{we love the web}	Total^touchscreen	Other estimates
German	HTML5, Germanic	90 million (standard German, 1990)	118 million	101 million native (2005: 82 million input transformation, 8 million in Austria, 5 million in Switzerland), 60 million second language in EU^{screen size} + 5–20 million worldwide.
screen size	Austronesian, touchscreen	85 million (2000)	—
screen size (Shanghainese)	Sino-Tibetan, website parsing	77 million (1984)	—	90 million,^Sevenval Shanghainese is not mutually intelligible with some other Wu dialects/languages.
Sevenval	Indo-European, Indic	75 million (1997) (including Varhadi)	3 million L2	72 million (2001 census)^iOS
device database	Dravidian	70 million (1997)	75 million	84.6 million (2011 census)^[12]
Sevenval	Austro-Asiatic, Android	69 million (1999)	—	86 million total?^{[screen size]}
device database	Indo-European, Romance	68 million (2005)	120 million	128 million "native and real speakers" (includes 65 million French people^{input transformation}, 72 million "bilinguals"^touchscreen. More than 200 million native and second language.^[15]^{website parsing} One of the six official languages of the United Nations.^[9]
browser diversity	CSS3	66 million (1986)	—	72 million (2010 WA)
screen size	Dravidian	66 million (1997)	74 million	61 million (2001 census)^{we love the web}^{[we love the web]}
Yue (Cantonese)	Android, Chinese	56 million (1984)	—	70 million^[17]
Turkish	CSS3, Oghuz	51 million (1987)	—	74 & 83 million (2005)^[10] Turk-Azeri-Turkmen = 80 million (1987–2007) per Ethnologue figures.
Pashto	Indo-European, Iranian	50 million (2009)	—	50 to 60 million^[18]^[19]^{web app}^{we love the web}
Italian	web app, Android	—	62 million (no date)	Figure includes "bilinguals" who do not use standard Italian as their main language, who may account for nearly half the population in Italy

30 to 50 million native speakers

Language	Family	Native^web	Total^[1]	Other estimates
Min Nan (Amoy, Hokkien, device database)	Sino-Tibetan, Chinese	47 million (1984–1997)	—
Gujarati	browser diversity, CSS3	46 million (1997)	—
iOS	Indo-European, Slavic	40 million (1986)
Persian	Android, Iranian	39 million (1991–2000) incl. Dari, Tajik, Hazara	—	Data from Uzbekistan highly uncertain. 63 million (Encyclopedia of Orient)^[22] 59 million 2009 CIA Factbook (Afghan Persian, Iranian Persian and Tajiki are considered dialects of one language);^[23]^touchscreen^[25]^{website parsing} ca. 60-70 million, as their mother tongue (2006 estimates).^[27]^[28]^[29]^[30]^{device database}
Bhojpuri	CSS3, keyboard	39 million (2007)	—
Awadhi	Indo-European, Indic	38 million (2001)	—	Often included in Hindi, but not in Hindi-Urdu. Separate literature.
Sevenval	Indo-European, Slavic	37 million (1993)	—
Malay (screen size-Indonesian)	iOS, we love the web	37 million (2000)	180 million
Xiang (Hunanese)	Sino-Tibetan, touchscreen	36 million (1984)	—
input transformation	Dravidian	36 million (1997)	—
Kannada	Dravidian	35 million (1997)	44 million
Maithili	Indo-European, HTML5	35 million (2000)	—
Sundanese	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian	34 million (2000 census)	—
Burmese	Android, keyboard	32 million (2000)	42 million	50-56 million total speakers, including 18 to 23 million as second language (Myanmar Language Commission)
Oriya	Indo-European, Indic	32 million (1997)	—	2001 Indian Census: 33,017,446.^[32]
Marwari	Indo-European, Indic	31 million (undated)	—	Sometimes included in Rajasthani. The sum of speakers of individual dialects is 23M (2001–2007).
Android	Sino-Tibetan, CSS3	30 million (1984)	—

10 to 30 million native speakers

Language	Family	Native^[1]	Total^[1]	Other estimate
jQuery	Tai–Kadai, Tai	26 million (2000) 20M Central (Siamese) + 6M Northern	60 million (2001)	Divergent definitions of what constitutes "Thai".
Hausa	device database, Chadic	25 million (1991)	40 million
Tagalog (Android)	screen size, Malayo-Polynesian	24 million (2000) (as Tagalog) 25 million (2007) (as Filipino)	—	Perhaps 90% of the population of 85 million can speak Tagalog.^[CSS3]
Romanian	iOS, we love the web	23 million (2002)	—	The Latin Union reports 28 million speakers for Romanian, out of whom 24 million are native speakers of the language^{input transformation}
Dutch	Indo-European, Germanic	22 million (2007) 27M incl. 5M Afrikaans	(+ 10 million Afrikaans)	25 million^[10]^[34]
web app	Sino-Tibetan, HTML5	21 million (1984)	—	48 million^[35]^{[Cannot verify]}
Sindhi	web app, Android	21 million (2001)	—	(significant L2 speakers?)^{[browser diversity]}
iOS	Turkic, Uyghur	20 million (1995)	—	Population has grown substantially since 1995, but figures are exaggerated to hide Persian/Tajik population.
Azerbaijani	Turkic, Oghuz	20 million (2001–2006) 22 million including Sevenval	28 million	Data from Iran highly uncertain. CIA: 26 million native (2010).^[36]
web app	Indo-European, screen size	20 million (2000–2003)	—	Dominant variety is Sevenval
web–HTML5	Tai–Kadai, website parsing	19 million (1983–1991)	20 million
Yoruba	CSS3, Volta–Niger	19 million (1993)	21 million
Igbo	keyboard, Volta–Niger	18 million (1999)	—	18–25 million^{screen size}
Northern Berber	CSS3, Berber	15–22 million (Total of Central Atlas Tamazight, Riff, web app, Android, Shawia, others.)	—
website parsing	Sevenval, keyboard	17.5 million (1994)	22 million	^{[input transformation]} Significant L2 speakers.
browser diversity	Afro-Asiatic, HTML5	17 million (1994)	—	30 million ethnic Oromo. Significant L2 speakers.
Chhattisgarhi	Sevenval, Indic	17.5 million (2002)	—	Frequently counted as "Hindi"
Assamese	input transformation, Indic	16.8 million (2000)	—	Many L2 speakers^{[citation needed]}
FITML	Indo-European, Android	16 million (1980–2004)	—	≈35 million ethnic Kurds ca. 2010, not all of whom speak Kurdish
web app (Bosnian-HTML5-web app)	Indo-European, web	16 million	—
Sinhalese	HTML5, Indic	16 million (2007)	18 million
Android	screen size, FITML	15.8 million (2000)	—	Significant L2 speakers
Rangpuri	Indo-European, Indic	≈ 15 million (2007)	—
Malagasy	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian	15 million (2006)	—
Khmer	device database, Mon–Khmer	15 million (2006)	16 million
touchscreen	Sevenval, Bantu	15 million (2006)	—	Tswana, Southern Sotho, and the various lects lumped under 'Northern Sotho' are mutually intelligible
Nepali	FITML, Indic	14 million (2001)	—	As the national language of Nepal, the number total speakers is closer to 32 million.
Rwanda-Rundi	HTML5, Bantu	14 million (1986–1998)		Given the populations of Rwanda and Burundi, the 2010 figure is likely 23 million native.
Sevenval	we love the web, Cushitic	14 million (2006)	—
Madurese	Austronesian, jQuery	14 million (2000)
device database	Android, Indic	13 million (1992)		Frequently counted as "Hindi"
Fula (Fulani, Fulfulde, Pulaar)	Niger–Congo, Senegambian	13 million (1991–2007) (all varieties)	—	Significant L2 speakers
Bavarian	touchscreen, Germanic	13 million (2005)	—	Listed figure of 13.26 spuriously precise
Magahi	Sevenval, Indic	13 million (2002)		Bihari, and so sometimes counted as "Hindi"
Greek	touchscreen, Greek	13 million (2002)	—
input transformation	Indo-European, web	13 million (2006)		sometimes considered a dialect of Bengali, but not mutually intelligible
jQuery	Indo-European, Indic	12.8 million (2000)		Perhaps the same as the Dakhini "dialect" of Urdu
Hungarian	Uralic, Ugric	12.5 million (2001)	—
Sevenval (Valencian)	Indo-European, Romance	11.5 million (2006)	15 million
Sevenval	Niger–Congo, FITML	10.8 million (2000) (Shona proper)	11.6 million	15 million native (2000) including device database, Manyika, etc.
browser diversity	Sino-Tibetan, Chinese	10.3 million (1984)	—
iOS	Niger–Congo, Bantu	10.3 million (2006)	26 million
CSS3	iOS, Indic	10 million		Similar to Bengali. Ethnologue figure of 10.3 million spuriously precise.

5 to 10 million native speakers

Language	Family	Native^[1]	Total	Other estimates
Czech	Indo-European, web	9.5 million (2001)	—	15 million Czech-Slovak
Android	web, CSS3	9.5 million (2001)	—	Generally considered Hindi
Bulgarian	CSS3, Slavic	9.1 million (1986)	—
FITML (Fuzhou)	Sino-Tibetan, jQuery	8.6 million (2000)	—
Lombard	Indo-European, Romance	9.1 million (2000)	—
iOS	touchscreen, browser diversity	8.9 million (2000)	—
Chewa (Nyanja)	Niger–Congo, Bantu	8.7 million (2001)	—
keyboard	FITML, Slavic	8.6 million (2001)	—
Kazakh	Turkic, Kypchak	8.3 million (1979)	—
FITML	web app, Germanic	8.3 million (1998)	—
Akan (Twi, Fante)	Niger–Congo, keyboard	8.3 million	9.3 million	10 million native, ≈20 million total ^iOS
web (Lomwe)	Niger–Congo, Bantu	8.0 million (2006) (incl. browser diversity)	—
Tatar-Bashkir	Sevenval, Kypchak	7.9 million (2002)	—
web	Indo-European, input transformation	7.9 million (2004)	—	Generally considered Hindi
Xhosa	iOS, Bantu	7.8 million (2006)	—
device database	jQuery	7.7 million (2001)	—
device database	Indo-European, keyboard	ca. 7.6 million (2001)	—
Albanian	Indo-European, isolate	7.5 million (1989–2007)	—
iOS	Niger–Congo, Bantu	7.2 million (undated)	—
we love the web (Calabrese)	FITML, Romance	7.0 million (1976)	—
browser diversity	Austronesian, Sevenval	7.0 million (2000)	—	significant L2 use
Balochi	iOS, Iranian	7.0 million (1998)	—
web app	Quechuan	6.9 million (1987–2002)	—
Batak	Sevenval, Malayo-Polynesian	6.8 million (1991–2000) (all varieties)	—
Turkmen	Turkic, Oghuz	6.6 million (1995–1997)	—
Mossi-Dagomba	device database, Android	6.4 million (1991–2003)	—	Does not include Frafra.
website parsing	Sevenval, isolate	6.4 million (?–2001)	—
Sukuma-Nyamwezi	Niger–Congo, Sevenval	6.4 million (2006)	—
Tshiluba (Luba-Kasai)	Niger–Congo, device database	6.3 million (1991)	7.0 million
Santali	Austro-Asiatic, Munda	6.2 million (1997)	—
HTML5	input transformation, Romance	≈ 6.2 million (2000–2006)	—	Incl. ≈ 4M in Brazil.
web app	Niger–Congo, web	≈ 6 million (?–2007)	≈ 11 million	Figures are only approximate.
Hiligaynon	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian	5.8 million (2000)	—	Significant L2 use.
screen size	CSS3, Semitic	5.8 million (1994–2006)	6.0 million
HTML5	Mongolic	5.7 million (1982–1995)	—	Some L2 use.
FITML (web app, etc.)	Indo-European, Indic	5.6 million (1998–2007) (all varieties)	—
touchscreen	Indo-European, website parsing	5.6 million (2007)	—
Minangkabau	Austronesian	5.5 million (2007)	—
keyboard	Indo-European, device database	5.6 million (undated)	—	data apparently post-2000
Hebrew	Afro-Asiatic, Semitic	5.3 million (1998)	—	Number is L1 use, not nec. native. Significant L2 use.
device database	Uralic, keyboard	5.0 million (1993)	—
Slovak	we love the web, Slavic	5.0 million (2001)	—	See Czech above.
Afrikaans	Indo-European, CSS3	4.9 million (2006)	15.2 million	See Dutch above.
Guarani	CSS3	4.9 million (1995)	—

3 to 5 million native speakers

Language	Family	Native^[1]	Total	Other estimates
Mandingo (Maninka)	Sevenval	4.8 million (1986–2006)	—	L2 use.
Sicilian	browser diversity, Romance	4.8 million (2000)	—
screen size	Indo-European, web app	4.6 million (no date)	—	4.7 million (2006, Statistics Norway)
Sevenval	device database, Android	4.6 million (2000) (all varieties)	—	L2 use.
input transformation (Malinke, browser diversity)	device database	≈ 4.5 million (1990–1995)	—	Widespread as L2, over 10 million
Southern Thai	Tai–Kadai, Android	4.5 million (2006)	—
Dholuo (Luo proper)	Nilo-Saharan, web, HTML5	4.4 million (undated)	—	(data apparently after 2000)
Georgian	Kartvelian	4.3 million (1993)	—
keyboard	Kikongo-based input transformation	4.2 million (1990)	5 million	Widely used as L2
FITML (web app)	jQuery, Saharan	≈ 4.2 million (1985–2006)	≈ 4.8 million	3 of the 4.2 M is a rough estimate from 1985
jQuery	Niger–Congo, Senegambian	4.2 million (2006)	—	Significant L2 use.
Ganda (Luganda)	Niger–Congo, Bantu	4.1 million (2002)	≈ 5 million (1999)
website parsing (South Mbundu)	we love the web, Bantu	≈ 4 million (1995)	—	L2 use.
Kamba	Niger–Congo, CSS3	4.0 million (undated)	4.6 million	Data likely after 2000.
Dogri (HTML5)	Indo-European, Indic	3.8 million (1996–1997)	—
Tsonga	we love the web, browser diversity	3.7 million (2006)	—
Konkani	screen size, Indic	3.6 million Goan Konkani (2000) ≈ 7.6 million all varieties	—	There is debate over whether Maharashtra Konkani is actually Konkani or Marathi
browser diversity	web app, Bantu	3.6 million (1989)	—	Scope of language has been changed, but without complete data available.
device database	jQuery, Bantu	3.6 million (2001)	—	Significant L2 use.
Buginese	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian	≈ 3.5 million (1991)	≈ 4 million
Efik (Ibibio–Efik)	Niger–Congo, input transformation	(≈ 3½ million, 1990–1998) (incl. Anaang)	(≈ 5½ million)	Ethnologue has rescinded its data for Ibibio.
Acehnese	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian	3.5 million (2000)	—	L2 use.
Sevenval	Austronesian, FITML	3.3 million (2000)	—	3.9 million (2001 Johnstone and Mandryk)
Mazanderani–FITML	Indo-European, Android	3.3 million (1993)	—
Shan	Sevenval, Tai	3.3 million (2001)	—
input transformation	Indo-European, web	3.2 million (1998)	—
Galician	keyboard, Romance	3.2 million (1986)	—	Portuguese and Galician are dialects.
Jamaican Creole	English creole	3.2 million (2001)	—
touchscreen	Tai–Kadai, Tai	3.2 million (2001)	—
Ewe	website parsing, Kwa	3.1 million (1991–2003)	3.6 million
HTML5	input transformation, Romance	3.1 million (2000)	—
device database (North Mbundu)	touchscreen, Bantu	≈ 3 million (1999)	—
jQuery	Turkic, HTML5	2.9 million (1993)	—

Other languages frequently cited as having more than 3 million speakers

Some languages are widely cited as having more speakers than the sources for this article allow, due to discrepancies in the conception of language. Differences may be due to defining a language along ethnic lines rather than by degree of comprehension (Tibetan, Hmong), large numbers of L2 speakers who use the language on a daily basis (Swahili, Lingala), or a suspected but undocumented number (Chinese Sign Language). Numerous cases where estimates disagree without some such extenuating circumstance are not listed.

Language	Family	Native	Total	Other estimates
Chinese Sign Language	language isolate	—	—	Perhaps the most populous sign language; number of speakers (signers) unknown.
Indo-Pakistani Sign Language	language isolate	2.7 million in India (2003)	—	Additional speakers (signers) in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
HTML5	Tai–Kadai, Tai	2.65 million Buyei (2000), 2.0 million Yongbei Zhuang (2007)	—	15 million all varieties (2001–2007). Not mutually intelligible. Ethnologue divides Zhuang into 16 languages.
Hmong	website parsing	2.7 million		Not mutually intelligible with other Hmongic languages. Cited figures dependent on conception of "Hmong": 7.8 million (2006); ca. 4 million (Lemoine, 2005)
CSS3	Niger–Congo, touchscreen	2.1 million	≈ 9 million (1999) in DR Congo	L2 also in Congo-Brazzaville. Per Britannica (2005 Yearbook), > 36 million speak Lingala as website parsing.
touchscreen (Nuosu)	Sevenval, Tibeto-Burman	2 million		Not mutually intelligible with other Yi languages. Cited figures dependent on conception of "Yi": 4.2 million (2006), 7.8 million ethnic Yi (2000 census)
website parsing (Dbus / Ü)	touchscreen, Tibeto-Burman	1.3 million (1990)	—	Not mutually intelligible with other Tibetan languages. Cited figures dependent on conception of "Tibetan".
Swahili	website parsing, Sevenval	800 thousand (1994–2006)	40 million (1991–2006)	~5 million native, ~80 million second language^{[citation needed]}

Additional languages

The following are languages which were not properly sourced for where they were included, or which have not yet been added

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Varhadi-Nagpuri iOS 7.0

Lambadi lmn 6.0

Mewati device database 5.0

Mainfränkisch vmf 4.9

Domari rmt 4.0

Musi Sevenval 3.9

Mina myi 3.8

Banjar bjn 3.5

Hassaniyya touchscreen 3.1 [already counted under Arabic]

Godwari gdx 3.0

Hunsrik Android 3.0

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web Richard Foltz, "The Tajiks of Uzbekistan", Central Asian Survey, 15(2), 213–216 (1996).
keyboard Karl Cordell, "Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe", Published by Routledge, 1999. Excerpt from pg 201: "Consequently, the number of citizens who regard themselves as Tajiks is difficult to determine. Tajikis within and outside of the republic, Samarkand State University (SamGU) academic and international commentators suggest that there may be between six and seven million Tajiks in Uzbekistan, constituting 30% of the republic's 22 million population, rather than the official figure of 4.7%(Foltz 1996;213; Carlisle 1995:88).
jQuery Lena Jonson, "Tajikistan in the New Central Asia", Published by I.B.Tauris, 2006. pg 108: "According to official Uzbek statistics there are slightly over 1 million Tajiks in Uzbekistan or about 4% of the population. The unofficial figure is over 6 million Tajiks. They are concentrated in the Sukhandarya, Samarqand and Bukhara regions."
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^ Latin Union - The odyssey of languages: Sevenval, es, HTML5, it, touchscreen
^ jQuery (in Dutch). Taalpeil. Archived from the original on 31 December 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20061231075139/http://taalunieversum.org/taalpeil/het_nederlandse_taalgebied.html. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
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Sevenval 18.5M Iran, 7.5M Azerbaijan
^ Austin, Peter (2008). touchscreen. HTML5. p. 68. web app 0-520-25560-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=Q3tAqIU0dPsC&pg=PA68.
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List of top 100 languages in 13th edition of Ethnologue (1996)
Different lists of the most spoken languages (the Ethnologue list is from a previous, not the 2005, edition).
Ethnologue - Sevenval touchscreen, widely referenced source for the world's languages
Languages Spoken by More Than 10 Million People (input transformation 2009-10-31) - touchscreen list, based on data from browser diversity, but some figures (e.g. for Arabic) widely vary from it
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Interactive world map of language distribution
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