MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD
The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World Almost half of the world’s population claims one of only 10 languages as their mother tongue. So what are the top 10 languages of the world? You might be surprised. Author's Avatar BY JAMES LANE APR. 24, 2016 The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World Determining which languages are spoken most in the world is a more difficult task than you might imagine. We can say with some confidence that Mandarin, English, Spanish and Arabic will make an appearance, and roughly in what order. But there are some surprises, too, on our list of the most common languages. Would you have guessed that Bengali is in the top 10? One small caveat: assigning hard data, in the form of “X million native speakers,” to any of these languages is practically impossible. What constitutes a language, a dialect or a subdialect, is hotly contested stuff. Even when linguists do agree on a category, how similar is the English spoken in the Scottish Highlands to the En...
