text: Can you restate your question? Do you mean: list popular languages based on the population of people speaking them? If so, then I think Chinese would take the prize, followed by Spanish, English, Russian, and so on.\n\nHere's the list from about.com:\n\n1. Mandarin Chinese - 882,475,389\n2. Spanish - 325,529,636\n3. English - 311,992,760\n4. Hindi - 181,780,905\n5. Portuguese - 178,557,840\n6. Bengali - 172,756,322\n7. Russian - 146,327,183\n8. Japanese - 128,278,015\n9. German - 96,047,358\n10. Wu Chinese - 77,998,190