What are the top ten mainstream languages in the world and how many people speak each language?
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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):
- Chinese (Mandarin) – 1.4 billion
- Spanish – 427 million
- English – 426 million
- Hindi – 305 million
- Arabic – 246 million
- Portuguese – 220 million
- Bengali – 165 million
- Russian – 147 million
- Japanese – 128 million
- French – 126 million