Hausa is world’s 11th most spoken Language

New research has found that Hausa Language, which is widely spoken in Northern Nigeria and other African nations, is the world’s 11th most spoken language.

According to Spectator Index, there are 150 million speakers of Hausa language all over the world, two million more than speakers of Punjabi (mainly in India) and 21 million more than German speakers.

Mandarin, which is spoken mainly in China, is the world’s most spoken language at 1.09 billion speakers, while English follows in second at 983 million speakers.

See full list of leading languages by number of speakers in million:

Mandarin: 1090

English: 983

Hindustani: 544

Spanish: 527

Arabic: 422

Malay: 281

Russia: 267

Bengali: 261

Portuguese: 229

French: 229

Hausa: 150

Punjabi: 148

German: 129

Japanese: 129

Persian: 121

Swahili: 107

Telugu: 92

(Ethnologue)