According to various sources, the top 10 most spoken languages in the world in 2023 are:
- Mandarin Chinese - 1.1 to 1.3 billion native speakers
- Spanish - 485 to 559 million native speakers
- English - 372 to 1.5 billion native speakers
- Hindi - 602 million to 609.5 million native speakers
- Arabic - 372 to 274 million native speakers
- Bengali - 228 to 272.8 million native speakers
- Portuguese - 221 to 263.6 million native speakers
- Russian - 154 to 255 million native speakers
- Japanese - 125 million native speakers
- Punjabi - 102 million native speakers
Its important to note that the exact numbers may vary depending on the source and the criteria used to define "native speakers" or "total speakers".
