The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World/ SHORT DETAILS

 1 CHINES_1.3 BILLION NATIVE SPEAKER    2 SPANISH-460 MILLION NATIVE SPEAKERS  3 ENGLISH-39-MILLION SPEAKERS   4HINDHI-341 MILLION NATIVE SPEAKERS   5 ARABIC-315 MILLION NATIVE SPEAKERS   6 BENGALI-228 MILLION SPEAKERS  7.PORTUGUES-220 MILLION  8.RUSSIAN-153 MILLION SPEAKERS   9 TANANESE--128 MILLION SPEAKERS   10.LAHNDA {western punjabi}--118 MILLION      WHEN WE count the 10 most spoken languages ​​by the total number of people who speak them [regardless of whether the language is their first language], eight out of 10 languages ​​from the above list still appear, but with a few major differences: English is slightly ahead Chinese is in the first place, Japanese and Punjabi are losing ground, and French and Indonesian are joining the top ten due to the fact that more people speak them as a second language than as a native language.  1. English

1.132 billion total speakers

2. Mandarin Chinese

1.117 billion total speakers

3. Hindi

615 million total speakers

4. Spanish534 million total speakers

5. French

280 million total speakers

6. Standard Arabic

274 million total speakers

7. Bengali

265 million total speakers

8. Russian

258 million total speakers

9. Portuguese

234 million total speakers

10. Indonesian 199 million total speakers