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Amharic
Spoken in: Ethiopia, Israel
Total speakers: 17,000,000+ total, 14,000,000+ monolinguals (1998)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
South Semitic
Ethiopian
South
Transversal
Amharic-Argobba
Amharic
Writing system: Ge'ez alphabet abugida
Hindi
Spoken in: India, Nepal[1] Fiji (Fiji Hindi), Pakistan (Urdu), Mauritius (Hindi/Urdu), Nepal (Bhojpuri), Suriname (Bhojpuri), Trinidad and Tobago (Bhojpuri), Guyana
Total speakers: First language: ~ 500–680 million (2008)[1]
Second language: 120–225 million (1999)[2]
Ranking: 2 [Native]
Language family: Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Hindi
Writing system: Devanagari, Urdu, Kaithi, Latin, and
several regional scripts.
English
Spoken in: Listed in the article
Total speakers: First language: 309–400 million
Second language: 199–1,400 million[2][3]
Overall: 1.8 billion[3]
Ranking: 3 (native speakers)[4][5]
Total: 1 or 2 [6]
Language family: Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
Anglo–Frisian
Anglic
English
Writing system: Latin (English variant)
French
Spoken in: Listed in the article
Region: Africa, Europe, Americas, Pacific, regions in Asia
Total speakers: Native: 65 to 130 million
Total: estimates from 160 million to 500 million
[1] [2] [3] [4]
Ranking: 9 (Native), total: 3 to 7
Language family: Indo-European
Italic
Romance
Italo-Western
Western
Gallo-Iberian
Gallo-Romance
Gallo-Rhaetian
Oïl
Spanish
Total speakers: First languagea: 322[1]– c. 400 million[2][3][4]
Totala: 400–500 million[5][6][7]
aAll numbers are approximate.
Ranking: 2 (native speakers)[8][9][10][11]
3 (total speakers)
Language family: Indo-European
Italic
Romance
Italo-Western
Gallo-Iberian
Ibero-Romance
West Iberian
Spanish, Castilian
Hebrew
Spoken in: Israel
Global (as a liturgical language for Judaism)
Total speakers: Around 7 million speakers[citation needed].
Extinct as a spoken language by the 4th century CE; Sephardi Hebrew revived in the 1880s (United States: 195,375).1
1United States Census 2000 PHC-T-37. Ability to Speak English by Language Spoken at Home: 2000. Table 1a.PDF (11.8 KiB)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Canaanite
Hebrew
Writing system: Hebrew alphabet
Malay
Spoken in: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand, southern Philippines, and Timor Leste (East Timor)
Total speakers: 200–250 million
Ranking: 54
Language family: Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
Nuclear MP
Sunda-Sulawesi
Malayic
Malayan
Local Malay
Malay
Writing system: Rumi (Latin alphabet) (official in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia; co-official in Brunei) and Jawi (Arabic script) (co-official in Brunei). Historically written in Pallava, Kawi and Rencong
Chinese/Asian Dialects
Spoken in: People's Republic of China (commonly known as "China"), Republic of China (commonly known as "Taiwan"), Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, California, Sydney and other regions with Chinese communities
Region: (majorities): East Asia
(minorities): Southeast Asia, and other regions with Chinese communities
Total speakers: approx 1.176 billion
Ranking: Chinese, all: 1
Mandarin: 1
Wu: 12
Cantonese: 18
Min: 22
Hakka: 33
Gan: 42
Language family: Sino-Tibetan
Chinese
Writing system: Chinese characters, Zhuyin fuhao
Punjabi
Spoken in: Pakistan, India, UK, USA, Canada, Australia, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong
Region: Punjab
Total speakers: Punjabi: 90 million native speakers as of 1998.
Ranking: 9-11 in a near tie with German and French
Language family: Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Punjabi
Writing system: Shahmukhi, Gurmukhi, and Devanagari
German
Spoken in: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and in some border areas, Belgium, Italy, Russia, and the United States as a minority language and the Alsace region of France in the form of a dialect.
Region: Central Europe, Western Europe
Total speakers: Native speakers: ca. 105 million [1][2]
Non-native speakers: ca. 80 million[1] [1]
Ranking: 10
Language family: Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
High German
German
Writing system: Latin alphabet (German variant)
Arabic:
Pronunciation: /alˌʕaraˈbijja/
Spoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, and Yemen; liturgical language of Islam.
Total speakers: Estimates of native speakers between 186 and 422 million and as many as 246 million non-native speakers[1].
Ranking: 2[2] to 6[3] (native speakers)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Arabic
Writing System: Proto Canaanite Arabic Abjad
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