10. German
100 million speakers worldwide

9. Japanese
125 million speakers worldwide

8. Russian
165 million speakers worldwide7. Portuguese
175 million speakers worldwide

5. Bengali
210 million speakers worldwide

4. English
340 million speakers worldwide

1. Mandarin Chinese
875 million speakers worldwide

Despite the ongoing troubles between India and Pakistan, its people speak the same language but write it in different alphabets; largely-Muslim Pakistan writes in Arabic script and speaks Urdu, while largely-Hindu India writes in Devanagari scipt and speaks Hindu.

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