Presently there are around 7.2 billion people living on this World speaking in around 7,102 known languages either as mother tongue or as native language, out of which the following languages are included in the list taking into consideration the fact of total number of speakers published by Ethnologue (a language reference) by SIL International in the 18th edition (2015) as having 50 million or more native speakers. Rank Language # 1 Chinese / Mandarin # 2 En