Languages by L2 speakers

	A	B	C	D
1	Language	Code	L1 speakers	L2 speakers
2	Standard Arabic	arb	206,000,000	246,000,000
3	Mandarin Chinese	cmn	847,808,270	178,000,000
4	Indonesian	ind	23,200,480	140,000,000
5	Hindi	hin	260,333,620	120,000,000
6	Spanish	spa	398,931,840	96,990,000
7	Urdu	urd	64,035,800	94,000,000
8	French	fra	75,916,150	87,000,000
9	Thai	tha	20,396,930	40,000,000
10	Bengali	ben	189,261,200	19,200,000
11	Zulu	zul	11,969,100	15,700,000
12	Hausa	hau	25,109,000	15,000,000
13	Xhosa	xho	8,177,300	11,000,000
14	Afrikaans	afr	7,096,810	10,300,000
15	Bamanankan	bam	4,072,040	10,000,000
16	Myanmar	mya	32,035,300	10,000,000
17	Congo Swahili	swc	1,000	9,100,000
18	Northern Sotho	nso	4,631,000	9,100,000
19	Kannada	kan	37,739,040	9,000,000
20	Azerbaijani	azj	7,313,660	8,000,000
21	German	deu	78,093,980	8,000,000
22	Tamil	tam	68,776,460	8,000,000
23	Jula	dyu	2,550,000	7,000,000
24	Lingala	lin	2,141,300	7,000,000
25	Koongo	kng	5,016,500	5,000,000
26	Telugu	tel	74,049,000	5,000,000
27	Ibibio	ibb	1,500,000	4,500,000
28	Tok Pisin	tpi	122,000	4,000,000
29	Krio	kri	495,600	4,000,000
30	Amharic	amh	21,811,600	4,000,000
31	Bangala	bxg	~0	3,500,000
32	Tsonga	tso	4,009,000	3,400,000
33	Malay	zlm	15,848,500	3,000,000
34	Marathi	mar	71,780,660	3,000,000
35	Sinhala	sin	15,613,980	2,000,000
36	Efik	efi	405,260	2,000,000
37	Duala	dua	87,700	2,000,000
38	Yoruba	yor	19,380,800	2,000,000
39	Shona	sna	10,741,700	1,800,000
40	Venda	ven	1,294,000	1,700,000
41	Sango	sag	404,000	1,600,000
42	Manado Malay	xmm	850,000	1,500,000
43	Sylheti	syl	10,300,000	1,500,000
44	Ambonese Malay	abs	245,020	1,400,000
45	Ndebele	nbl	1,090,000	1,400,000
46	Rakhine	rki	1,000,000	1,020,000
47	Ganda	lug	4,130,000	1,000,000
48	Akan	aka	8,314,600	1,000,000
49	Khmer	khm	14,224,500	1,000,000
50	Kangri	xnr	1,700,000	surrounding pahari dialects have high comprehension of kangri
51	Swahili	swh	15,437,390	Probably over 80% of rural people
52	Kabuverdianu	kea	1,202,000	most immigrants in cape verde tend to learn kabuverdianu, in order to interact effectively with all segments of society, especially those involved in business, including a large population of chinese
53	Wagdi	wbr	2,510,000	merchants and government workers use it as l2
54	Eastern Maninkakan	emk	3,531,800	l2 for a considerable part of non-manding population of guinea, especially in the guinée forestière region
55	Eastern Balochi	bgp	5,000,000	including L2 users of all Balochi languages
56	Bikol	bcl	2,500,000	also used by migrants and those who marry into the area as l2
57	Dari	prs	9,600,000	all other language groups have dari speakers, especially those who live in the city of kabul
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