These Are the World’s Most Spoken Languages in One Chart

Laura Dang
June 11, 2015

There are 7,102 known languages alive today. The graph below represents 4.1 billion people who speak at least one of the world’s 23 most-spoken languages as their native tongue. Each language is separated by the the darkened borders, and the numbers within indicate how many native speakers (in millions) are in a country.

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Source: Lucasinfografia.com
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