If only 5 languages survive in future, when rest of them becomes extinct in future, which will those 5 languages be?
These are the 30 languages with most native speakers (according to chatgpt)
Mandarin Chinese – 950–1,000 million Spanish – 480 million English – 380 million Hindi – 345 million Bengali – 230 million Portuguese – 230 million Russian – 155 million Japanese – 125 million Western Punjabi – 95 million Telugu – 95 million Turkish – 90 million Yue Chinese (Cantonese) – 85 million Tamil – 85 million Wu Chinese (Shanghainese) – 83 million Korean – 82 million French – 80 million Vietnamese – 76 million Marathi – 75 million Hausa – 75 million Egyptian Arabic – 74 million Javanese – 70 million Italian – 68 million Thai – 65 million Gujarati – 64 million Iranian Persian (Farsi) – 63 million Bhojpuri – 62 million Southern Min (Hokkien/Taiwanese) – 60 million Kannada – 56 million Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) – 45–50 million Polish – 45 million
Posted Oct 28, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC