ITIMPRESS publishes selected articles in the 30 most widely spoken languages. Each language links to every article published in it. Speaker figures are first- plus second-language totals from Ethnologue (2026 edition); percentages are shares of world population and overlap across languages, since many people speak more than one.
English (English)
1,493 million speakers
简体中文 (Mandarin Chinese)
1,183 million speakers
हिन्दी (Hindi)
611 million speakers
Español (Spanish)
561 million speakers
العربية الفصحى (Modern Standard Arabic)
335 million speakers
Français (French)
334 million speakers
বাংলা (Bengali)
274 million speakers
Português (Portuguese)
269 million speakers
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
255 million speakers
اردو (Urdu)
246 million speakers
Русский (Russian)
210 million speakers
Deutsch (Standard German)
133 million speakers
日本語 (Japanese)
126 million speakers
Naijá (Nigerian Pidgin)
121 million speakers
مصري (Egyptian Arabic)
118 million speakers
मराठी (Marathi)
99 million speakers
Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
97 million speakers
తెలుగు (Telugu)
96 million speakers
Kiswahili (Swahili)
95 million speakers
Hausa (Hausa)
94 million speakers
Türkçe (Turkish)
94 million speakers
پنجابی (Western Punjabi)
90 million speakers
Tagalog (Tagalog)
87 million speakers
தமிழ் (Tamil)
86 million speakers
粵語 (Yue Chinese (Cantonese))
86 million speakers
吴语 (Wu Chinese (Shanghainese))
83 million speakers
فارسی (Iranian Persian)
82 million speakers
한국어 (Korean)
82 million speakers
አማርኛ (Amharic)
78 million speakers
ไทย (Thai)
71 million speakers