The top twenty languages

The top twenty languages
Spoken as First or Second language ( millions )

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Chinese Mandarin-------------------------------------------------------------------1052
English-------------------------------------------------508
Hindi --------------------------------------------- 487
Spanish------------------------------------------- 417
Russian---------------------------------------- 277
Bengali------------------------------------ 211
Portuguese-----------------------191
German, Standard-----------------128
French---------------------------128
Japanese-------------------------126
Urdu-----------------------------104
Korean----------------------------78
Chinese, Wu-----------------------77
Javanese------------------------- 76
Telugu--------------------------- 75
Tamil-----------------------------74
Chinese, Yue--------------------- 71
Marathi------------------------- 71
Vietnamese--------------------- 68
Turkish------------------------ 61
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