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<table class="wikitable sortable jquery-tablesorter">
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="headerSort headerSortUp" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort descending">Rank</th>
<th class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending">Language</th>
<th data-sort-type="number" class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending">Native speakers in millions 2007 (2010)</th>
<th class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending">Percentage of world population (2007)</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>Mandarin (entire branch)</td>
<td>935 (955)</td>
<td>14.1%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
<td>390 (405)</td>
<td>5.85%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>English</td>
<td>365 (360)</td>
<td>5.52%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>Hindi</td>
<td>295 (310)</td>
<td>4.46%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>Arabic</td>
<td>280 (295)</td>
<td>4.23%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6</td>
<td>Portuguese</td>
<td>205 (215)</td>
<td>3.08%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>7</td>
<td>Bengali (Bangla)</td>
<td>200 (205)</td>
<td>3.05%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8</td>
<td>Russian</td>
<td>160 (155)</td>
<td>2.42%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
<td>Japanese</td>
<td>125 (125)</td>
<td>1.92%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10</td>
<td>Punjabi</td>
<td>95 (100)</td>
<td>1.44%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11</td>
<td>German</td>
<td>92 (95)</td>
<td>1.39%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12</td>
<td>Javanese</td>
<td>82</td>
<td>1.25%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>13</td>
<td>Wu (inc. Shanghainese )</td>
<td>80</td>
<td>1.20%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>14</td>
<td>Malay (inc. Indonesian and Malaysian )</td>
<td>77</td>
<td>1.16%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15</td>
<td>Telugu</td>
<td>76</td>
<td>1.15%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16</td>
<td>Vietnamese</td>
<td>76</td>
<td>1.14%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>17</td>
<td>Korean</td>
<td>76</td>
<td>1.14%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>18</td>
<td>French</td>
<td>75</td>
<td>1.12%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>19</td>
<td>Marathi</td>
<td>73</td>
<td>1.10%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>20</td>
<td>Tamil</td>
<td>70</td>
<td>1.06%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21</td>
<td>Urdu</td>
<td>66</td>
<td>0.99%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>22</td>
<td>Turkish</td>
<td>63</td>
<td>0.95%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>23</td>
<td>Italian</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>0.90%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>24</td>
<td>Yue (inc. Cantonese )</td>
<td>59</td>
<td>0.89%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>25</td>
<td>Thai</td>
<td>56</td>
<td>0.85%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>26</td>
<td>Gujarati</td>
<td>49</td>
<td>0.74%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27</td>
<td>Jin</td>
<td>48</td>
<td>0.72%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>28</td>
<td>Southern Min (inc. Hokkien and Teochew )</td>
<td>47</td>
<td>0.71%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>29</td>
<td>Persian</td>
<td>45</td>
<td>0.68%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>30</td>
<td>Polish</td>
<td>40</td>
<td>0.61%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>31</td>
<td>Pashto</td>
<td>39</td>
<td>0.58%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>32</td>
<td>Kannada</td>
<td>38</td>
<td>0.58%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>33</td>
<td>Xiang</td>
<td>38</td>
<td>0.58%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>34</td>
<td>Malayalam</td>
<td>38</td>
<td>0.57%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>35</td>
<td>Sundanese</td>
<td>38</td>
<td>0.57%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>36</td>
<td>Hausa</td>
<td>34</td>
<td>0.52%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>37</td>
<td>Odia (Oriya)</td>
<td>33</td>
<td>0.50%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>38</td>
<td>Burmese</td>
<td>33</td>
<td>0.50%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>39</td>
<td>Hakka</td>
<td>31</td>
<td>0.46%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>40</td>
<td>Ukrainian</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>0.46%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>41</td>
<td>Bhojpuri</td>
<td>29</td>
<td>0.43%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>42</td>
<td>Tagalog
(Filipino)</td>
<td>28</td>
<td>0.42%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>43</td>
<td>Yoruba</td>
<td>28</td>
<td>0.42%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>44</td>
<td>Maithili</td>
<td>27</td>
<td>0.41%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>45</td>
<td>Uzbek</td>
<td>26</td>
<td>0.39%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>46</td>
<td>Sindhi</td>
<td>26</td>
<td>0.39%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>47</td>
<td>Amharic</td>
<td>25</td>
<td>0.37%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>48</td>
<td>Fula</td>
<td>24</td>
<td>0.37%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>49</td>
<td>Romanian</td>
<td>24</td>
<td>0.37%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>50</td>
<td>Oromo</td>
<td>24</td>
<td>0.36%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>51</td>
<td>Igbo</td>
<td>24</td>
<td>0.36%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>52</td>
<td>Azerbaijani</td>
<td>23</td>
<td>0.34%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>53</td>
<td>Awadhi</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>0.33%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>54</td>
<td>Gan</td>
<td>22</td>
<td>0.33%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>55</td>
<td>Cebuano (Visayan)</td>
<td>21</td>
<td>0.32%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>56</td>
<td>Dutch</td>
<td>21</td>
<td>0.32%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>57</td>
<td>Kurdish</td>
<td>21</td>
<td>0.31%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>58</td>
<td>Serbo-Croatian</td>
<td>19</td>
<td>0.28%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>59</td>
<td>Malagasy</td>
<td>18</td>
<td>0.28%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>60</td>
<td>Saraiki</td>
<td>17</td>
<td>0.26%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>61</td>
<td>Nepali</td>
<td>17</td>
<td>0.25%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>62</td>
<td>Sinhalese</td>
<td>16</td>
<td>0.25%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>63</td>
<td>Chittagonian</td>
<td>16</td>
<td>0.24%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>64</td>
<td>Zhuang</td>
<td>16</td>
<td>0.24%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>65</td>
<td>Khmer</td>
<td>16</td>
<td>0.24%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>66</td>
<td>Turkmen</td>
<td>16</td>
<td>0.24%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>67</td>
<td>Assamese</td>
<td>15</td>
<td>0.23%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>68</td>
<td>Madurese</td>
<td>15</td>
<td>0.23%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>69</td>
<td>Somali</td>
<td>15</td>
<td>0.22%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>70</td>
<td>Marwari</td>
<td>14</td>
<td>0.21%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>71</td>
<td>Magahi</td>
<td>14</td>
<td>0.21%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>72</td>
<td>Haryanvi</td>
<td>14</td>
<td>0.21%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>73</td>
<td>Hungarian</td>
<td>13</td>
<td>0.19%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>74</td>
<td>Chhattisgarhi</td>
<td>12</td>
<td>0.19%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>75</td>
<td>Greek</td>
<td>12</td>
<td>0.18%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>76</td>
<td>Chewa</td>
<td>12</td>
<td>0.17%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>77</td>
<td>Deccan</td>
<td>11</td>
<td>0.17%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>78</td>
<td>Akan</td>
<td>11</td>
<td>0.17%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>79</td>
<td>Kazakh</td>
<td>11</td>
<td>0.17%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>80</td>
<td>Northern Min</td>
<td>10.9</td>
<td>0.16%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>81</td>
<td>Sylheti</td>
<td>10.7</td>
<td>0.16%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>82</td>
<td>Zulu</td>
<td>10.4</td>
<td>0.16%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>83</td>
<td>Czech</td>
<td>10.0</td>
<td>0.15%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>84</td>
<td>Kinyarwanda</td>
<td>9.8</td>
<td>0.15%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>85</td>
<td>Dhundhari</td>
<td>9.6</td>
<td>0.15%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>86</td>
<td>Haitian Creole</td>
<td>9.6</td>
<td>0.15%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>87</td>
<td>Eastern Min (inc. Fuzhou dialect )</td>
<td>9.5</td>
<td>0.14%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>88</td>
<td>Ilocano</td>
<td>9.1</td>
<td>0.14%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>89</td>
<td>Quechua</td>
<td>8.9</td>
<td>0.13%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>90</td>
<td>Kirundi</td>
<td>8.8</td>
<td>0.13%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>91</td>
<td>Swedish</td>
<td>8.7</td>
<td>0.13%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>92</td>
<td>Hmong</td>
<td>8.4</td>
<td>0.13%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>93</td>
<td>Shona</td>
<td>8.3</td>
<td>0.13%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>94</td>
<td>Uyghur</td>
<td>8.2</td>
<td>0.12%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>95</td>
<td>Hiligaynon/Ilonggo (Visayan)</td>
<td>8.2</td>
<td>0.12%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>96</td>
<td>Mossi</td>
<td>7.6</td>
<td>0.11%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>97</td>
<td>Xhosa</td>
<td>7.6</td>
<td>0.11%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>98</td>
<td>Belarusian</td>
<td>7.6</td>
<td>0.11%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>99</td>
<td>Balochi</td>
<td>7.6</td>
<td>0.11%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>100</td>
<td>Konkani</td>
<td>7.4</td>
<td>0.11%</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tfoot></tfoot>
</table>
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