А вообще.. Я тут нашла оч интересную табличку.. делюсь! =)

The
30 Most Spo ken Languages
of the World


Pos Language Family Script(s) Used Speakers
(Millions) Where Spoken (Major) 1MandarinSino-TibetanChinese Characters1051China, Malaysia, Taiwan2EnglishIndo-EuropeanLatin510USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand3HindiIndo-EuropeanDevanagari490North and Central India4SpanishIndo-EuropeanLatin425The Americas, Spain5ArabicAfro-AsiaticArabic255Middle East, Arabia, North Africa6RussianIndo-EuropeanCyrillic254Russia, Central Asia7PortugueseIndo-EuropeanLatin218Brazil, Portugal, Southern Africa8BengaliIndo-EuropeanBengali215Bangladesh, Eastern India9Malay, IndonesianMalayo-PolynesianLatin175Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore10FrenchIndo-EuropeanLatin130France, Canada, West Africa, Central Africa11JapaneseAltaicChinese Characters and 2 Japanese Alphabets127Japan12GermanIndo-EuropeanLatin123Germany, Austria, Central Europe13Farsi (Persian)Indo-EuropeanNastaliq110Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia14UrduIndo-EuropeanNastaliq104Pakistan, India15PunjabiIndo-EuropeanGurumukhi103Pakistan, India16VietnameseAustroasiaticBased on Latin86Vietnam, China17TamilDravidianTamil78Southern India, Sri Lanka, Malyasia18WuSino-TibetanChinese Characters77China19JavaneseMalayo-PolynesianJavanese76Indonesia20TurkishAltaicLatin7 5Turkey, Central Asia21TeluguDravidianTelugu74Southern India22KoreanAltaicHangul72Korean Peninsula23MarathiIndo-EuropeanDevanagari71Western India24ItalianIndo-EuropeanLatin61Italy, Central Europe25ThaiSino-TibetanThai60Thailand, Laos26CantoneseSino-TibetanChinese Characters55Southern China27GujaratiIndo-EuropeanGujarati47Western India, Kenya28PolishIndo-EuropeanLatin46Poland, Central Europe29KannadaDravidianKannada44Southern India30BurmeseSino-TibetanBurmese42Myanmar