This interesting infographic from Alberto Lucas Lopez shows us that English is not the most spoken language in the world. The most commonly spoken native language on this planet is Chinese, purely by numbers, and even Spanish and Arabic do not have to hide behind English. However, no other foreign language is taught as often in schools around the world as English, which is why English is the most common foreign language first learned. Logo. Esperanto no longer seems to play a role today, and by the way, Austria is not missing from German, but is in the brown “German blob” at the bottom right, just not labeled.
There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world today. Twenty-three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. The 23 languages make up the native tongue of 4.1 billion people.? We represent each language within black borders and then provide the numbers of native speakers (in millions) by country. The color of these countries shows how languages have taken root in many different regions.