Most Spoken Languages of the World

Description: data about most popular spoken languages worldwide.

Source: Ethnologue

Columns:

  • Rank (numerical): The languages rank in terms of speaker count
  • Language (string): name of a language, such as Spanish or French
  • Speakers in millions (numerical): how many people worldwide are speakers of that language, in millions
  • Percentage of world population (numerical): what percent of the world's population speaks that language
  • Language family (string): what family of languages a given language belongs to, such as Indo-European
  • Branch (string): what overarching group of languages a given language belongs to, such as Romantic or Sino-Tibetan

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