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1 How Many People Speak

1.1 How Many People Speak?

489.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Abkhaz speaking population
0.13 1200

1.2 Speaking Population

6.15 %
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Xhosa speaking population
0.11 89

1.3 Native Speakers

410.00 million
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Abkhaz speaking population
0.13 873

1.3.1 Second Language Speakers

89.50 million
Rank: 9 (Overall)
Finnish speaking population
0.01 400

1.3.2 Native Name

Español

1.3.3 Alternative Names

Castellano, Castilian, Español

1.3.4 French Name

espagnol; castillan

1.3.5 German Name

Spanisch

1.4 Pronunciation

[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]

1.5 Ethnicity

Not Available

Do you know how many people speak Spanish?

Different languages are spoken in different regions. Do you know how many people speak Spanish? 489.00 million people speak Spanish language worldwide. These ethnic group speaking Spanish is Not Available and International Phonetic Alphabet IPA of Spanish is [espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]. Find if Spanish is one of the Most Spoken Languages. How many people speak Spanish gives you total count of Spanish speaking population in millions and in percentage worldwide. Are you interested in finding the countries that speak Spanish, then check Spanish Speaking Countries and get to know all the Spanish countries.

Spanish Speaking Population

Here you get to know how many people speak Spanish in percentage. The Spanish speaking population is 6.15 %. Spanish Speaking Population is the percentage of world population speaking Spanish language. Along with this, you can also find the dialects in Spanish spoken in various regions under Spanish Dialects. Chinese, Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world and is at the top place.

Native Spanish Speakers

You will get to know second language speakers of Spanish language as well as native Spanish Speakers under how many people speak Spanish language. There is an estimate that there are almost 410.00 million native speakers of Spanish language. Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers and on other hand some languages have small population of native speakers. 89.50 million population speak Spanish as second language where Spanish is not the native language of the speaker. The number of second language speakers mentioned in how many people speak Spanish are those whose native language is minority language of country in which they live. They learn the second language because it is official language of the country where they reside.

Native name of Spanish

How many people speak Spanish serves you with native name of Spanish language. The native name of Spanish is Español. Native names are the local names for the languages. The native names of the languages are used by the native speakers of that language. The alternative names of Spanish are Castellano, Castilian, Español. The German and French names for Spanish language is as follows:

  • French Name for Spanish: espagnol; castillan.
  • German Name for Spanish: Spanisch.
In some applications, instead of using language names they use language codes, check out the language code of Spanish on Spanish Language Codes.