The 12 most spoken languages on Earth

The 12 most spoken languages on Earth: English: 1,500,000,000 Mandarin: 1,100,000,000 Hindi: 609,500,000 Spanish: 559,100,000 French: 309,800,000 Standard Arabic: 274,000,000 Bengali: 272,800,000 Portuguese: 263,600,000 Russian: 255,000,000 Urdu: 231,700,000 Indonesian: 199,100,000 German: 133,200,000 Note: number of speakers in 2023 According to Ethnologue