Below are the top ten mainstream languages in the world, along with their estimated number of speakers (ranked in order of the estimated number of speakers):

  1. Chinese (Mandarin) - 1.4 billion
  2. Spanish - 427 million
  3. English - 426 million
  4. Hindi - 305 million
  5. Arabic - 246 million
  6. Portuguese - 220 million
  7. Bengali - 165 million
  8. Russian - 147 million
  9. Japanese - 128 million
  10. French - 126 million

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