Jul 31, 2025 · Numbers vary widely — Ethnologue puts the number of native speakers at 1.3 billion native speakers, roughly 900 million of whom speak Mandarin — but there’s no doubt …

There are more than 485 million native speakers of Spanish, making it second only to Chinese in terms of the most spoken languages in the world. English is just behind Spanish, with …

Apr 29, 2022 · Currently, the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger lists 1,078 languages with fewer than 1,000 speakers. Here’s a closer look at four languages that are …

Jun 22, 2021 · Spanish’s prestige grows even more when leaving Europe: 20 countries have Spanish declared as an official language and over 470 million individuals are native speakers …

Oct 28, 2024 · If you count both native and non-native speakers, the Indonesian language is one of the most-spoken languages in the world. And yet, almost every single one of those …

Aug 15, 2023 · Through colonization and diaspora, French is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world, following English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and Bengali.

People around the world are learning Spanish for various reasons, but which countries are leading the pack?

Mar 31, 2025 · This goal of global unity was the motivator behind Esperanto, a language created over a century ago in Poland. While we clearly don’t all speak Esperanto today, the language …

Jan 25, 2019 · Arabic is one of the world's most popular languages. Find out how many people speak Arabic, its history and the places you'll find it!

Apr 29, 2025 · Roughly 76.1 million people in the world speak German as a first language, with an additional 58 million speaking it as a second, third or fourth language. The 155 million figure …