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Top 100 Most Spoken Languages in the World

Sunday, March 8, 2026

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A hand-ranked Top 100 for this topic, ordered from the most obvious names near #1 to the hidden gems near #100.

This list was researched and ranked by hand for Centumth. Entries near #1 are the names almost everyone thinks of first. Entries near #100 are true, a little obscure, and still fair if you think sideways. Sources below are the starting point — the final order can include small editorial calls so the daily puzzle stays balanced.

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The full Top 100

  1. #1English
  2. #2Mandarin Chinese
  3. #3Hindi
  4. #4Spanish
  5. #5French
  6. #6Modern Standard Arabic
  7. #7Bengali
  8. #8Russian
  9. #9Portuguese
  10. #10Urdu
  11. #11Indonesian
  12. #12German
  13. #13Japanese
  14. #14Nigerian Pidgin
  15. #15Marathi
  16. #16Telugu
  17. #17Turkish
  18. #18Tamil
  19. #19Yue Chinese
  20. #20Vietnamese
  21. #21Tagalog
  22. #22Wu Chinese
  23. #23Korean
  24. #24Persian
  25. #25Hausa
  26. #26Egyptian Arabic
  27. #27Swahili
  28. #28Javanese
  29. #29Italian
  30. #30Punjabi
  31. #31Gujarati
  32. #32Thai
  33. #33Amharic
  34. #34Kannada
  35. #35Odia
  36. #36Bhojpuri
  37. #37Hakka Chinese
  38. #38Burmese
  39. #39Jin Chinese
  40. #40Yoruba
  41. #41Uzbek
  42. #42Maithili
  43. #43Sindhi
  44. #44Moroccan Arabic
  45. #45Southern Min
  46. #46Fula
  47. #47Romanian
  48. #48Oromo
  49. #49Igbo
  50. #50Azerbaijani
  51. #51Awadhi
  52. #52Gan Chinese
  53. #53Cebuano
  54. #54Dutch
  55. #55Kurdish
  56. #56Serbo-Croatian
  57. #57Malagasy
  58. #58Saraiki
  59. #59Nepali
  60. #60Sinhala
  61. #61Chittagonian
  62. #62Zhuang
  63. #63Khmer
  64. #64Turkmen
  65. #65Assamese
  66. #66Madurese
  67. #67Somali
  68. #68Marwari
  69. #69Magahi
  70. #70Haryanvi
  71. #71Hungarian
  72. #72Chhattisgarhi
  73. #73Greek
  74. #74Chewa
  75. #75Kinyarwanda
  76. #76Deccan
  77. #77Akan
  78. #78Kazakh
  79. #79Northern Min
  80. #80Sylheti
  81. #81Zulu
  82. #82Czech
  83. #83Kirundi
  84. #84Pashto
  85. #85Uyghur
  86. #86Eastern Min
  87. #87Ilocano
  88. #88Quechua
  89. #89Swedish
  90. #90Hmong
  91. #91Shona
  92. #92Hiligaynon
  93. #93Balochi
  94. #94Belarusian
  95. #95Xhosa
  96. #96Konkani
  97. #97Lombard
  98. #98Gikuyu
  99. #99Tatar
  100. #100Makhuwa

The full ranked list is included on this page. Use Reveal full 100 list to read it, or play the game above.