10 most widely spoken languages in the world

Mandarin Chinese (1.140 billion speakers)

English (1.515 billion speakers)

Hindi (609 million speakers)

Spanish (559 million speakers)

Standard Arabic (332 million speakers)

French (312 million speakers)

Bengali (278 million speakers)

Portuguese (264 million speakers)

Russian (255 million speakers)

Russian (255 million speakers)

Urdu (238 million speakers)

This information is not DNA's opinion but obtained from media reports