There are around 7,164 languages used in the world today. Measurements depend on definitions: English has about 450 million native speakers, but second- and third-language speakers may add up to as many as two billion. This list ranks languages by total speakers:

1. English: 1.493 billion
2. Mandarin Chinese: 1.183 billion
3. Hindi: 611 million
4. Spanish: 561 million
5. Modern Standard Arabic: 335 million
6. French: 334 million
7. Bengali: 274 million
8. Portuguese: 269 million
9. Indonesian: 255 million
10. Urdu: 246 million