What Are The Top 3 Most Spoken Languages? - Fixanswer

In 2020

English

is the most widely spoken language in the world with more than 1.2 billion people practicing it. After that, the Chinese language, with more than 1.120 million people speaking it, and Hindi that stops” at about 637 million. At the foot of the podium, Spanish (538 million) and French (278 million).

What are the top 5 most spoken languages?

It comes as no surprise that

English reigns

supreme, with over 1.1 billion total speakers—or roughly 15% of the global population. Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, and French round out the top five.

What are the top 3 language families spoken around the world?

Language family Approx. # of speakers % of world population	1. Indo-European 2.562 billion 44.78%	2. Sino-Tibetan 1.276 billion 22.28%	3. Niger-Congo 358 million 6.26%	4. Afro-Asiatic 340 million 5.93%

What is the most popular spoken language in the world?

English

is the largest language in the world, if you count both native and non-native speakers. If you count only native speakers, Mandarin Chinese is the largest.

What languages are dying?

Irish Gaelic. Irish Gaelic currently has over 40,000 estimated native speakers. …
Krymchak. …
Okanagan-Colville. …
Ts'ixa. …
Ainu. …
Rapa Nui. …
Yagan.

What is the most beautiful language?

Arabic language. Arabic is one of the most beautiful languages in the world. …
English language. English is the most gorgeous language in the world. …
Italian language. Italian is one of the most romantic languages in the world. …
Welsh language. …
Persian language.

What is the hardest language to learn?

Mandarin. Number of native speakers: 1.2 billion. …
Icelandic. Number of native speakers: 330,000. …
3. Japanese. Number of native speakers: 122 million. …
Hungarian. Number of native speakers: 13 million. …
Korean. …
Arabic. …
Finnish. …
Polish.

What was the first language on earth?

As far as the world knew,

Sanskrit

stood as the first spoken language because it dated as back as 5000 BC. New information indicates that although Sanskrit is among the oldest spoken languages, Tamil dates back further.

Which language is the easiest to learn?

Norwegian. This may come as a surprise, but we have ranked Norwegian as the easiest language to learn for English speakers. …
Swedish. …
Spanish. …
Dutch. …
Portuguese. …
Indonesian. …
Italian. …
French.

What is the oldest language family?

The Tamil language is recognized as the oldest language in the world and it is the oldest language of the

Dravidian family

. This language had a presence even around 5,000 years ago.

What is the largest language family in the world?

Based on speaker count,

Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan

are the largest two language families, with over 4.6 billion speakers between them. The two most spoken languages are in these families – English is classified as Indo-European, and Mandarin Chinese is classified as Sino-Tibetan.

What is the smallest language family in the world?

The Chukchi-Kamchatkan (“Paleosiberian”) Family

Perhaps the smallest family, this one includes 5 languages with 23,000 speakers in the farthest northeastern reaches of Siberia. Many linguists consider these two unrelated families.

What is the richest language in the world?

Rank Language GDP($US Billions)	1 English 28.088	2 Chinese 26.56	3 Spanish 8.17	4 Arabic 7.1

Which language is most spoken in World 2020?

English (1,132 million speakers) …
Mandarin Chinese (1,117 million speakers) …
Hindi (615 million speakers) …
Spanish (534 million speakers) …
Arabic (274 million speakers) …
Bangla/Bengali (265 million speakers) …
Russian (258 million speakers) …
Portuguese (234 million speakers)

What language did the Jesus speak?

Most religious scholars and historians agree with Pope Francis that the historical Jesus principally spoke

a Galilean dialect of Aramaic

. Through trade, invasions and conquest, the Aramaic language had spread far afield by the 7th century B.C., and would become the lingua franca in much of the Middle East.