List of languages by total number of speakers (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "List of languages by total number of speakers" in English language version.

refsWebsite

Global rank English rank

2ethnologue.com

339^th place

388^th place

104^th place

199^th place

2^nd place

2^nd place

1semanticscholar.org

11^th place

8^th place

6^th place

6^th place

89^th place

147^th place

archive.org (Global: 6^th place; English: 6^th place)

Crystal, David (1988). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge University Press. pp. 286–287. ISBN 978-0-521-26438-9.

cia.gov (Global: 89^th place; English: 147^th place)

"Most spoken languages in the World". The World Factbook. CIA. Retrieved 2022-01-01.

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Crystal, David (March 2008). "Two thousand million?". English Today. 24: 3–6. doi:10.1017/S0266078408000023. S2CID 145597019.

ethnologue.com (Global: 339^th place; English: 388^th place)

"What are the top 200 most spoken languages?". Ethnologue. 2025. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
Arabic, Standard at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)

semanticscholar.org (Global: 11^th place; English: 8^th place)

api.semanticscholar.org

Crystal, David (March 2008). "Two thousand million?". English Today. 24: 3–6. doi:10.1017/S0266078408000023. S2CID 145597019.

unesco.org (Global: 104^th place; English: 199^th place)

uis.unesco.org

Paolillo, John C.; Das, Anupam (31 March 2006). "Evaluating language statistics: the Ethnologue and beyond" (PDF). UNESCO Institute of Statistics. pp. 3–5. Retrieved 17 November 2018.