Senarai bahasa mengikut jumlah bilangan penutur

Sukar untuk menentukan apa yang membentuk bahasa berbanding dialek . Sesetengah bahasa, seperti Cina dan Arab, merangkumi beberapa jenis yang saling tidak dapat difahami dan kadangkala dianggap sebagai bahasa tunggal dan kadangkala keluarga bahasa. Sebaliknya, daftar bahasa sehari -hari Hindi dan Urdu hampir boleh difahami sepenuhnya, dan kadangkala diklasifikasikan sebagai satu bahasa, Hindustani, bukannya dua bahasa yang berasingan. 

Ethnologue (2022, 25th edition)
Bahasa dalam list ini mempunyai 40 juta bahkan melebihi pembicara dalam edisi 2022.
Ethnologue. Entries identified by Ethnologue as macrolanguages (such as Arabic, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese, encompassing all their respective varieties) are not included in this section.

 Bahasa Keluarga bahasa Sub Bahasa Penutur Bahasa Utama(L1)  Penutur Bahasa Cadangan(L2)  Banyak Penutur (L1+L2) English Indo-European Germanic 372.9 million 1.080 billion 1.452 billion Bahasa mandarin(incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan Sinitic 929.0 million 198.7 million 1.118 billion Hindi(excl. Urdu) Indo-European Indo-Aryan 343.9 million 258.3 million 602.2 million Spanish Indo-European Romance 474.7 million 73.6 million 548.3 million French Indo-European Romance 79.9 million 194.2 million 274.1 million Modern Standard Arabic(excl. dialects) Afro-Asiatic Semitic 0 274.0 million 274.0 million Bengali Indo-European Indo-Aryan 233.7 million 39.0 million 272.7 million Russian Indo-European Balto-Slavic 154.0 million 104.1 million 258.2 million Portuguese Indo-European Romance 232.4 million 25.2 million 257.7 million Urdu(excl. Hindi) Indo-European Indo-Aryan 70.2 million 161.0 million 231.3 million bahasa Indonesia(diluar bahasa melayu/Bahasa Melayu Malaysia) Austronesian  Malayo-Polynesian 43.6 million 155.4 million 199.0 million Standard German  Indo-European Germanic 75.6 million 59.1 million 134.6 million Japanese Japonic  125.3 million 0.1 million 125.4 million Nigerian Pidgin English Creole Krio 4.7 million 116.0 million 120.7 million Marathi Indo-European Indo-Aryan 83.1 million 16.0 million 99.1 million Telugu Dravidian South-Central 82.7 million 13.0 million 95.7 million Turkish Turkic Oghuz 82.2 million 5.9 million 88.1 million Tamil Dravidian Southern 78.4 million 8.0 million 86.4 million Yue Chinese(incl. Cantonese) Sino-Tibetan Sinitic 85.2 million 0.4 million 85.6 million Vietnamese Austroasiatic Vietic 84.6 million 0.7 million 85.3 million Tagalog Austronesian Central Philippine 28.2 million 54.2 million 82.3 million Wu Chinese(incl. Shanghainese) Sino-Tibetan Sinitic 81.7 million 0.1 million 81.8 million Korean Koreanic    81.7 million Iranian Persian(excl. Dari and Tajik) Indo-European Iranian 56.4 million 21.0 million 77.4 million Hausa Afro-Asiatic Chadic 50.8 million 26.3 million 77.1 millionEgyptian Spoken Arabic(excl. other Arabic dialects)Afro-AsiaticSemitic   74.8 million Swahili Niger–Congo Bantu 16.1 million 55.4 million 71.4 million Javanese Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian   68.3 million Italian Indo-European Romance 64.8 million 3.1 million 67.9 million Western Punjabi(excl. Eastern Punjabi) Indo-European Indo-Aryan   66.4 million Kannada Dravidian Southern 48.6 million 15.4 million 64.0 million Gujarati Indo-European Indo-Aryan 57.0 million 5.0 million 62.0 million Thai Kra–Dai Zhuang–Tai 20.7 million 40.0 million 60.7 million Amharic Afro-Asiatic Semitic 32.4 million 25.1 million 57.5 million Bhojpuri Indo-European Indo-Aryan 52.3 million 0.2 million 52.5 million Eastern Punjabi(excl. Western Punjabi) Indo-European Indo-Aryan 48.1 million 3.6 million 51.7 million Min Nan Chinese(incl. Hokkien) Sino-Tibetan Sinitic 49.3 million 0.4 million 49.7 million Jin Chinese Sino-Tibetan Sinitic   47.1 million Yoruba Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo 43.6 million 2.0 million 45.6 million Hakka Chinese Sino-Tibetan Sinitic 43.8 million 0.2 million 44.1 million Burmese Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman 33.0 million 10.0 million 43.0 million Sudanese Spoken Arabic Afro-Asiatic Semitic 33.3 million 9.0 million 42.3 million Polish Indo-European Balto-Slavic 40.0 million 0.7 million 40.6 million Algerian Spoken Arabic Afro-Asiatic Semitic 34.7 million 5.6 million 40.3 million Lingala Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo 20.3 million 20.0 million 40.3 million
Tiada kriteria tunggal untuk berapa banyak pengetahuan yang mencukupi untuk dikira sebagai penutur bahasa kedua . 

Terdapat juga kesukaran untuk mendapatkan bilangan penutur yang boleh dipercayai, yang berbeza mengikut masa kerana perubahan populasi dan peralihan bahasa . Di sesetengah kawasan, tiada data banci yang boleh dipercayai, data itu bukan semasa, atau banci mungkin tidak merekodkan bahasa yang dituturkan, atau merekodkannya secara samar-samar. Kadangkala populasi penutur dibesar-besarkan atas sebab politik, atau penutur bahasa minoriti mungkin kurang dilaporkan memihak kepada bahasa kebangsaan.