List of languages by number of native speakers

Columns: Rank | Language | Speakers ( millions ) | % of the World population ( March 2019 ) | Language family Branch
1 | Mandarin Chinese | 918 | 11.922 | Sino-Tibetan Sinitic | 2 | Spanish | 480 | 5.994 | Indo-European Romance | 3 | English | 379 | 4.922 | Indo-European Germanic | 4 | Hindi ( Sanskritised Hindustani ) | 341 | 4.429 | Indo-European Indo-Aryan | 5 | Bengali | 228 | 2.961 | Indo-European Indo-Aryan | 6 | Portuguese | 221 | 2.870 | Indo-European Romance | 7 | Russian | 154 | 2.000 | Indo-European Balto-Slavic

Example questions:
In which part of China is Cantonese most likely spoken ? | How many tones does this language that belongs to this family of more than 400 languages ? | Which dialect became basis of this language that belongs to the family of about 219 known languages ? | Over how many years has this language developed that belongs to this family of languages including Danish , Norwegian and Swedish ?

Answers:
Chinese Macau | four tones | Khariboli dialect of Delhi | 1,400 years