HOME LANGUAGES WITH OVER FORTY MILLION SPEAKERS1
LANGUAGE	MILLIONS
Mandarin Chinese	865
English	334
Spanish	283
Arabic	197
Bengali	181
Hindi and Urdu	172
Portuguese	161
Russian	156
Japanese	125
German	104
Wu Chinese	94
Panjabi	76
Javanese	76
Telugu	72
Cantonese	70
Korean	70
Marathi	68
Italian	68
Tamil	65
French	65
Vietnamese	61
Awadhi2	61
Bhojpuri	58
Southern Min Chinese3	55
Turkish	52
Ukrainian	50
Thai and Lao	47
Polish	42
Gujarati	41
Persian	40

¹Compiled by William W. Gage, using information supplied in Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 11th ed. (Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1988). Home language used here means the language usually spoken at home.
²Indo-Aryan language of eastern and central Uttar Pradesh.
³Group of Chinese dialects especially of Xiamen, Shantou, and Taiwan.