The following tables list the 100 largest languages in the world by native speakers, roughly corresponding to languages with more than seven and a half million estimated native speakers, ordered by number of speakers. Two lists are given, which disagree in many particulars; other estimates will vary again, and the numbers should be taken as no more than an indication of the rough order of magnitude of a linguistic community.
via List of languages by number of native speakers – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
