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Most Spoken Languages
in the World
| Language |
Million
Users |
| 1. Mandarin |
1 075 |
| 2. English |
514 |
| 3. Hindustani |
500 |
| 4. Spanish |
425 |
| 5. Russian |
275 |
| 6. Arabic |
256 |
| 7. Bengali |
215 |
| 8. Portuguese |
194 |
| 9. Malay |
176 |
| 10. French |
129 |
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Language in Europe (EU)
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| Language |
Countries |
As mother tongue (percentage of EU population) |
As other than mother tongue (percentage of EU population) |
Total |
| English |
United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta |
13% |
38% |
51% |
| German |
Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy, France, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary |
18% |
14% |
32% |
| French |
France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy |
12% |
14% |
26% |
| Italian |
Italy, Slovenia and Malta |
13% |
3% |
16% |
| Spanish |
Spain |
9% |
6% |
15% |
| Polish |
Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Lithuania and Latvia |
9% |
1% |
10% |
| Russian |
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Greece |
1% |
6% |
7% |
| Dutch |
Netherlands, Belgium and France |
5% |
1% |
6% |
| Swedish |
Sweden and Finland |
2% |
1% |
3% |
| Greek |
Greece, Cyprus and Italy |
3% |
0% |
3% |
| Czech |
Czech Republic, Austria and Slovakia |
2% |
1% |
3% |
| Hungarian |
Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Austria |
2% |
0% |
2% |
| Portuguese |
Portugal |
2% |
0% |
2% |
| Slovak |
Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary |
1% |
1% |
2% |
| Catalan |
Spain, France and Italy |
1% |
1% |
2% |
German as the national language of Germany and Austria has about 90 million native speakers in the EU. This puts it ahead of English, which has about 64 native speakers in the EU and French with about 63 million native speakers in the EU.
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