List Of Most Widely Spoken Languages. It is a part of the west germanic language family and is present in six of seven continents as an official language (with 64% of its native speakers being americans). 45 rows this is a list of languages by total number of speakers.

The notable changes are the prominence of french, and the appearance of malay/indonesian which push other languages like japanese off the list. Over 88% of people speak one of these languages as their native tongue, and many hundreds of millions more speak them as second languages. It is the most spoken european language and is now spoken in late soviet union countries.