Fraggle Rocker
Staff member
According to a Wikipedia article whose accuracy has been challenged, French is hanging on at #11. The top 20 languages in the world, ranked by number of native speakers (Ethnologue estimate, in millions, rounded to ten million), are:Il y'a beaucoup de langues dans le monde qui sont plus utilisées que la langue Française . Plus de gens parlent Espagnol, Russe, Chinois, Arabe, Anglais, Indien.....etc que le Français.
- Mandarin 870
- Hindi/Urdu 420
- English 350
- Spanish 330
- Arabic 210
- Bengali 210
- Portuguese 180
- Russian 150
- Japanese 120
- German 100
- French 80
- Wu (China) 80
- Korean 80
- Javanese 80
- Yue (China) 70
- Telugu (India) 70
- Marathi (India) 70
- Vietnamese 70
- Tamil (India) 70
- Italian 60