🇵🇹 Portuguese (Português) Romance • Latin alphabet • SVO (flexible) Number of Speakers (est.) Native ~230–250M • Total ~260M+ BrazilPortugalAngolaMozambiqueCape VerdeTimor-Leste Family / Branch Indo-European → Romance → West Iberian (Galician–Portuguese roots) Close to Galician… 🇵🇹 Portuguese #8 Most Spoken Language (267M speakers)

🇧🇩 Bengali (বাংলা / Bangla) Indo-Aryan • Abugida • SOV (topic–comment friendly) Number of Speakers (est.) Native ~230–240M • Total ~265–300M BangladeshIndia (West Bengal, Tripura, Assam)Global diaspora Family / Branch Indo-European → Indo-Iranian → Indo-Aryan… 🇧🇩 Bengali #7 Most Spoken Language (284M speakers)

🇫🇷 French (Français) Romance • Latin alphabet • SVO Number of Speakers (est.) Native ~80M • Total ~300M+ FranceBelgiumSwitzerlandCanada (Quebec)Africa Family / Branch Indo-European → Romance → Gallo-Romance Cognates with Spanish/Italian Writing System Latin alphabet… 🇫🇷 French #6 Most Spoken Language (312M speakers)

🌍 Arabic (MSA) Semitic • Arabic script (abjad) • VSO / SVO Number of Speakers (est.) Arabic (varieties): 300M+ native • 400M+ total; MSA is the shared formal standard Pan-Arab worldMedia, education, religion Family /… 🇸🇦 Arabic (MSA) #5 Most Spoken Language (335M speakers)

🇪🇸 Spanish (Español) Romance • Latin alphabet • SVO (flexible, pro-drop) Number of Speakers (est.) Native ~485–500M • Total ~570–600M+ SpainMexicoColombia ArgentinaPeruU.S. (L1/L2) Family / Branch Indo-European → Romance → Western Romance → Ibero-Romance (close… 🇪🇸 Spanish #4 Most Spoken Language (558M speakers)

🇮🇳 Hindi (हिन्दी) Indo-Aryan • Devanagari script • SOV (flexible) Number of Speakers (est.) Native ~350–400M • Total ~600M+ (L2 & diaspora) IndiaNepalFijiMauritius Family / Branch Indo-European → Indo-Iranian → Indo-Aryan (close to Urdu; links… 🇮🇳 Hindi #3 Most Spoken Language (609M speakers)

🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese (普通话 / Pǔtōnghuà) Sino-Tibetan • Tonal • SVO (topic–comment friendly) Number of Speakers (est.) Native ~920M • Total 1.1B+ Mainland ChinaTaiwanSingaporeGlobal diaspora Family / Branch Sino-Tibetan → Sinitic → Mandarin group Largest… 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese #2 Most Spoken Language (1.2B speakers)

🇬🇧🇺🇸 English Germanic • Latin alphabet • SVO (flexible) • Stress-timed Writing System Latin alphabet, 26 letters. Deep orthography (spelling ≠ sound). Schwa /ə/ everywhere. No diacritics natively Lots of digraphs: th, sh, ch, gh… 🇬🇧 English #1 Most Spoken Language (1.5B speakers)