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| '''[[चीनी]]''' || [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan]], [[Chinese language|Chinese]] || 873,014,298 || 1,210,000,000†<ref name=Encarta /> || 982,000,000 native, 179,000,000 second language = 1,151,000,000 total<ref>http://www.krysstal.com/spoken.html The 30 Most Spoken Languages of the World</ref><br />†<small>Encarta estimate includes all Chinese dialects</small> || 1

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| '''[[हिन्दी]]''' || [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]], [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]], [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] || 366,000,000 Hindi, <br />60,503,579 Urdu<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=HND |title=Hindi |HINDI: a language of India |author=ethnologue |year=2000 |work=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |edition=14th |publisher=Ethnolouge.}}</ref> || 366,000,000 Hindi, <br />60,290,000 Urdu ||[[Standard Hindi]] 325,000,000; A total of 650,000,000 including [[Urdu]] (official language of [[Pakistan]] ) and secondary speakers, does not include [[Maithili language|Maithili]]. All Hindi-Urdu dialects are mutually intelligible. || 2