Language studies provided by English live show that the following are the most frequently spoken languages in the world:

10- German:

It is spoken by 2.77% of the world’s population and is one of the most prevalent mother tongues in the European Union, as well as one of the most popular speaking countries outside of Germany, Austria, and portions of Switzerland and Belgium.

9- French:

It is the official language in 32 countries in the world, and the proportion of speakers of it reaches 3.05% of the world’s population. As for the speakers of it, besides French, they are distributed among Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco and some African countries.

8- Bengali:

It is eighth and has 3.19% of the world’s population speakers, of whom about 120 million are the total population of Bangladesh. It is also the language of West Bengal in India, and is considered one of the world’s most widely spoken languages.

7- Portuguese:

The percentage of those who speak it reaches 3.26% of the world’s population, distributed among Portugal, Macau, Angola, Venezuela and Mozambique, but the most famous and largest Portuguese-speaking country is Brazil.

6- Russian:

It is the most widespread of the Slavic languages, and one of the most widespread languages ​​in the world, and the percentage of speakers of it is 3.95%. They are distributed in many countries of the former Soviet Union, including Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and others.

5- Spanish:

The Spanish language ranks fifth because there are 24 countries that consider it the official language. The percentage of speakers of it reaches 6.25%, or about 400 million people. Besides Spain, the Spanish language is spread in Latin and Central America and is the second language in the United States after English.

4- Arabic :

It occupies the fourth place among the most widespread languages, and is spoken by the population of about 66 countries in the world, including all Arab countries, and the number of speakers is estimated by about 6.6% of the world’s population, and it became an officially recognized language in the United Nations in 1974.

3- Hindi:

It is a third with speakers amounting to 11.51% of the world’s population. It is the official language of India as well as in the Fiji Islands, as it is spoken by the people of Nepal, and a good percentage in South Africa and other regions of the world.

2- Chinese:

The fraction of Chinese language speakers in the entire world population is 18.05%, and their number exceeds one billion people. The Chinese language is known as Mandarin, and as is well known, China boasts the world’s biggest population.

1- English:

It is the most extensively used language in the world, recognized as the language of the times and the language of technology, and it is used and spoken as a primary or secondary language by over 1.5 billion people. And, with around 25% of the world’s population speaking English, the English language is regarded as one of the most strong in the world.