The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:
(number of native speakers in parentheses)

1. Chinese* (937,132,000)
   
2. Spanish (332,000,000)
   
3. English (322,000,000)
   
4. Bengali (189,000,000)
   
5. Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
   
6. Arabic* (174,950,000)
   
7. Portuguese (170,000,000)
   
8. Russian (170,000,000)
   
9. Japanese (125,000,000)
   
10. German (98,000,000)
    
11. French* (79,572,000)

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