The World’s Most-Spoken Languages In A Single Infographic

I think Alberto Lucas Lopez haven't done his research well. Is he, at all credible? lol There are a lot of ancient and dead languages which most of this modern languages came from. Latin, for example, is a mother language of a lot of languages; a lot of English words are derived from it actually. And a lot of countries are in the wrong categories. The author of this post is merely copy and pasting things which SEEMED valid in his own eyes; not doing any further research on what he is posting.

Angola is missing in Portuguese

Please delete this, you are speading wrong information, theres not even one true thing in this infographic..

In Azerbaycan Ozbekistan Turkmenistan Kırgızistan Kazakistan China Russia; millions of people speaks Turkish!

French is natively spoken by over 270 million people around the world. Get your facts straight please.

It irks me every time someone refers Indonesian/Malay as Bahasa. "Bahasa" means "language". You'd either call it Indonesian/Malay or Bahasa Indonesia/Bahasa Melayu.

Russian language? It's CYRILLIC and almost every country in East Europe speak it. So please, that infographic is just wrong.

I wish those languages that were forced into the "Chinese" group had their own group. You don't call Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Lanhda the "Indian" language group do you?

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English is one of the most popular language in India, Its missing

You have not included Kannada..not researched properly

Bahasa Indonesia is the national languange of 230 Millions Indonesian citizen. 44 Millions? Really?

There are more than 3,8 million russian spoken people in Kazakhstan and 8 million in Ukraine.In my opinion the whole Ukraine and approximately 90 percent Kazakh people can speak Russian.Author has counted only ethnic Russian. I think that more than 225-240 million people who can speak and understand Russian in the world.

Chinese CANNOT be spoken, only written. Official dialect is Beijing Madarin, because thats the current capital.

México is not in South America :DDDDDDDD!

what about telegu? shouldn't it be Telugu?

Ridiculous, kannada language spoken by 44 million ppl around the world id not even mentioned.....

A great sample of MIS-INFOGRAPHIC it seems. Take it down already, it's an eye sore. Too many inaccuracies.

I think it must be pretty old because it mentions world population of 4.1 billion whereas "...The United States Census Bureau estimates that the world population exceeded 7 billion on March 12, 2012. According to a separate estimate by the United Nations Population Fund, it reached this milestone on October 31, 2011..." and Australia is shown as 15.6 million which has grown to "...23.13 million (2013)..."

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So you seem to be missing the 67 million people in Thailand that speak Thai, yeah this is brilliant...good job!

This is an interesting analysis. Urdu and Hindi are very close in nature and it is a fact that what is called Hidi in India is not Hindi but it is Urdu. Indian movies are produced in Urdu, not in Hindi. If a film is produced in Hindi, it will never get the popularity in India or elsewhere. Urdu is the top anguage that spreading around the world despite all hindrances.

That thing is not accurate. Germany alone has 82 million German Speakers. Switzerland has 8 million inhabitants, not 0,7. And Austria is missing.

I don't know for other languages but, regarding french it's soooo underestimated ! here: http://www.francophonie.org/IMG/pdf/pays-plus-1-million-locuteurs.pdf total estimated is 181 480 000 ! what a HUGE difference !

Graphic's good but the infos are uncompleted so wrong... Form AND substance

I think there is a problem here with Turkish. If Chinese is taken as a macrolanguage, which is correct, then Turkish.. or Turkic languages should also be grouped and included in this infographic. If this were done, whole countries, semi-autonomous states in Russia and large Turkic/Turkish communities in other countries would also be included. For example, almost all the Central Asian states (excluding Tadjikistan), 2+ million Turks in Europe (Germany has 2 million alone), Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Tatarstan in Russia as well as many small communities and regions in Siberia, and many more I do not know or remember.

Interesting... but where is French speaking Africa in your graphic ? According to OIF 274 million of people speak French in the world : http://www.francophonie.org/Estimation-des-francophones.html

0.7m German speakers in Swizerland? LOL, looks more like a shifted decimal - 80% of all swiss identify as German, so thats more like 5+m.

Where is Hungary and Hungarian?

one can't take this graph at face value. A further in depth study has to be done. however the notion of perceived numbers should light inquisitiveness.

Tagal oh is talk by over 100millions people however is still missing .... All the french speaking country In Africa aren't count (same w English, excepted SA) ..... Not so good, but such an interesting project, I hope soon it's will be well done :D

I cant see it it wont let me make it bigger so i can read it

which type of chinese? there are 2 different chinese languages.

There are much more Portuguese speakers, Mozambique has 25 million people, Guinea-Bissau and Angola are missing, and much more regions like Macau are missing, also the number of french people speaking portuguese is much bigger. The Portuguese language has at least 280M native speakers, not counting the number of people who have it as a secondary language, or that number would go much higher. In conclusion, this infographic is a complete b******t, in all languages as it seems, i would suggest this to be deleted, it is a lie and you are speading wrong information.

Very, VERY approximative "research". One example out of many, I wonder why the ex British colonies are counted as "English spaking" (like India, Zimbabwe, etc...) but the ex French colonies like DRCongo, Cameroun, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mali, Guinea etc are not counted as French speaking? Makes a HUGE difference, as it more than doubles the number of French speakers taking those into accounts. If you don't use the same methodology for all languages, the comparison and therefore the graphic become totally useless, or worst, misleading!

interesting!