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Pos  Language    Family                 Script(s) Used    Speakers (Millions)   Where Spoken (Major)
1    Mandarin     Sino-Tibetan         Chinese Characters     1151    China, Malaysia, Taiwan
2    English         Indo-European      Latin                          1000    USA/UK/Australia/Canada/New Zealand
3    Spanish       Indo-European      Latin                           500    Mexico/Central and South America/Spain
4    Hindi           Indo-European      Devanagari                 490    North and Central India
5    Russian        Indo-European     Cyrillic                        277    Russia, Central Asia
6    Arabic         Afro-Asiatic          Arabic                        255    Middle East, Arabia, North Africa
7    Portuguese   Indo-European     Latin                           240    Brazil, Portugal, Southern Africa
8    Bengali         Indo-European     Bengali                       215    Bangladesh, Eastern India
9    French         Indo-European     Latin                           200    France/Canada/West Africa/Central Africa
10  Malay, Indonesian     Malayo-Polynesian     Latin       175    Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore