Language is something that we all use every day. The language can be defined as the best way to communicate and one impressively and straight forward to understand the need and desire of others and vice versa. However, in this world where globalization is growing every day, the need to learn more than one language is more important than ever. Worldwide, there are more than 7,000 known languages but only a few have been considered as most popular languages or languages spoken in the world.

Here is a list of the ten most spoken languages worldwide regarding its total speakers.

Language French

With total speakers of more than 220 million worldwide, French is added in the main languages spoken in the world with a rich history as an international language of trade, diplomacy and literature.

French is a Romance language belonged to the Indo-European family. Apparently it is descended from languages such as Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian and Catalan. French is the official language of 29 countries, including France, Monaco, southern Belgium, western Switzerland and among various communities in Canada, while it is the second most spoken language in the European Union. It is also spoken in many countries in other continents, such as Rwanda, Cameroon, Haiti, Gabon, Algeria, Mauritius, Senegal and Ivory Coast.

According to a demographic projection led by the Université Laval and the Réseau de l'Demographics University Agency of La Francophonie, the French speaking total approximately 500 million people numbering in 2025 and 650 million by 2050. The International Organization Francophone estimated 700 million in 2050, 80% of which will be in Africa.

Malay-Indonesian language

Malay is the main language of the Austronesian family, it is the national language of Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. It has speakers in total around 250 million, including native and foreign. Malay has five historical background including Old Malay, Transition Period, period Malacca, Malaysian Open Modern, and modern Malay. Malay language, one of the most spoken language in the world, has also spoken in East Timor, Thailand, Cocos Island and Christmas Island in different forms and different names with respect to their native speakers around the world.

Various types of Malay language are based more or less in the same language root. But the most popular of them is the Indonesian language. In 2010, the language of Indonesia has 42.8 million native speakers, and 154.9 million second language speakers.

Portuguese Language

Portuguese is another most spoken languages in the world. This language romance reaches approximately 260 million speakers, while the official language of Portugal, Mozambique, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe. It also becomes co-official language in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macao.

Portuguese is a part of the ibero-romance that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval kingdom of Galicia group. It is also the most widely spoken language in South America and the second most spoken in Latin America after Spanish, and is an official language of the European Union, Mercosur and the African Union.

According to estimates by UNESCO, Portuguese is the fastest growing European language after English and the language has the greatest growth potential as an international language in southern Africa and South America. Portuguese is truly a global language officially spoken on 5 continents, and as a second language by millions worldwide.

Russian Language

Today, Russian is an official language in 4 countries, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Belarus. In the past century, Russian is spoken throughout the Soviet Union. Therefore, it is still widely spoken also in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Estonia and other countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union. The total number of speakers worldwide is about 260 million.

Russian language belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three living members of the East Slavic languages. Grammatically, Russian distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without, and then called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found between pairs of almost all consonants and is one of the most distinctive features of the language.

According to the Language Institute in Monterey, California, Defending the Russian language is classified as a language level IV in terms of learning difficulty for native speakers of English, which requires about 1,000 hours of intensive training to achieve intermediate fluency.

Bengali Language

Bengali is the mother tongue of Bangladesh and parts of India, including West Bengal, Tripura and south Assam. These make up the region known as Bengal. There are 300 million Bengali speakers worldwide. 210 million are native speakers, with 90 million people who can speak as an additional language. There have been some regional differences in the use, accent and phonetics of the Bengali language is a major contributor to the Bengali nationalism, which has rich literary tradition and cultural diversity. The importance of this language to the countries of South Asia is illustrated by the history of the national anthems of Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, who first composed in Bengali language.

In addition to the region of origin, but also it is spoken by the majority of the population in the territory of the Indian Union of Andaman and Nicobar. There are also significant Bengali-speaking communities in the Middle East, Japan, the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Maldives, Australia, Canada and the UK.

Language Hindi

Hindi language is Officials of the languages of India, which has a total of more than 400 million speakers worldwide, making it one of the most spoken languages in the world. It has 240 native speakers and more than 160 million who use it as a secondary language. This language also historically known as Hindavi, Dehlvi and Rekhta. It is an Indo-Aryan language derived mainly from Khariboli dialect of Delhi, and incorporates a lot of vocabulary from Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and Chagatai.

According to the language rules, Hindi and Urdu are the same language. However, Hindi is written in Devanagari script and uses more words in Sanskrit, while Urdu is written in the Perso-Arabic script that makes the difference between them.

Besides being the lingua franca of South Asia in India and Pakistan, the Indian language is also spoken among the South Asian diaspora and their descendants in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and the Middle East . Because the population is growing at an incredible rate, it is expected to pass English in the coming years.

Language Arabic

It belonged to the Asian African family, the classical Arabic of the sixth century, Arabic is spoken in large parts of West Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa. With the total number of speakers of more than 490 million worldwide, Arabic is one of the most spoken languages in the world that is used in most written documents. Arabic speakers can be found in countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt. The most widely spoken variety would probably Egyptian Arabic, with 89 million native speakers.

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, closely related to Aramaic, Hebrew, Ugaritic and Phoenician. Standard Arabic is different, and more conservative than all spoken varieties, and both exist in a state known as diglossia, used side by side for different social functions.

The modern written language or modern standard Arabic is derived from the language of the Koran. Modern Standard Arabic largely follows the grammatical rules of the Koran and uses much of the same vocabulary. Because Arabic is the language of the Koran, millions of Moslems in other countries speak Arabic as well. So many people have a working knowledge of Arabic. In fact, in 1974, it became the sixth official language of the United Nations.

Language Spanish

Originated in the region of Castilla, language, Spanish is a Romance language that has hundreds of millions of native speakers, while spread throughout the world with over 500 million speakers for which added one of the most spoken languages the planet. Spanish vocabulary consists of many words Ibero-Romance language, Arabic, Occitan, French, Italian and Sardinian. Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and is used as an official language of the European Union, the Organization of American States, the Union of South American Nations, and among many other international organizations.

Spanish is the official or national language in Spain, Equatorial Guinea, and 19 countries in the Americas, convened by Latin America. These countries include Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela. In all these countries, Spanish is the main language and the exchange of official character with one or more indigenous languages sometimes.

In the European Union, the Spanish is the mother tongue of 8% of the population, with an additional 7% speak as a second language. It is also the second most popular language learned in the United States.

English Language

English is a West Germanic language spoken for the first time in medieval England and is now a global lingua franca. It is an official language of 94 countries, including 67 sovereign states and 27 non-sovereign entities. This most spoken language in several Western countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, and widely spoken in the Caribbean, Africa continent and South Asia. English is the official language of the United Nations and the European Union, has developed over more than 1,400 years. Influence in the world of English language has spread around the masses in the world and become one of the most spoken language in the world with about 900 million total speakers.

Modern English spread throughout the world from the 17th to 20th centuries. Through all kinds of printed and electronic media, as well as the emergence of the US as a global superpower, English has become the main language of international discourse and the lingua franca in many regions and in professional contexts, such as science, navigation, and law.

Chinese Language

Chinese language is most widely spoken languages top of the world, with 1.2 billion native speakers around the world. It is spoken by the majority Han and many other ethnic groups in China. It is one of the most difficult languages to learn. There are between 7 and 13 main regional groups of Chinese language, which the most spoken, by far, is Mandarin, which has about 960 million speakers, followed by Wu (80 million), Yue (60 million) and Min (70 million). All varieties of Chinese are tonal and analytic.

Standard Chinese is a standardized form of spoken Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect Mandarin. It is the official language of China and Taiwan as well as one of the four official languages of Singapore. It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

The other varieties of Chinese, Cantonese is influential in Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macao, and is widely spoken in the overseas communities. Moreover, Min Nan, part of the Min group, is widely spoken in southern Fujian, in neighboring Taiwan and in Southeast Asia, which is also known as Hokkien in the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia.