Language Breakdown for 2017

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The table below lists a language breakdown of information about movies released in 2017. The Share is a percentage based on total worldwide box office of the movies using the specified language relative to the combined worldwide box office of all movies in the listed year. Please note that movies that use different languages count for the share of each language, and the language information in our database is incomplete. These factors will typically cause the share percentages in a specific year not to add up to 100%. Click on the language name for a list of all the films using that language. Click on the movie name to see information on the individual film.

Note: Since we are still actively researching languages, we consider this chart to be in beta mode. While we make every effort to collect all available data, there are inevitably omissions and errors. Please help us by sending corrections to corrections@the-numbers.com.

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LanguageNumber
of
Movies		Total
Worldwide
Box Office		ShareTop-Grossing Movie
English  1,609  $30,117,483,522  79.268% Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi
Mandarin  175  $4,049,816,080  10.659% Zhan Lang 2
Hindi  147  $1,201,744,546  3.163% Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
Korean  109  $908,791,228  2.392% Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds
Japanese  101  $834,844,890  2.197% Yao Mao Zhuan
French  170  $587,195,450  1.545% Call Me by Your Name
Cantonese  31  $433,122,714  1.140% Chasing the Dragon
Spanish  188  $363,834,410  0.958% How to Be a Latin Lover
Russian  84  $315,260,224  0.830% Dvizhenie Vverkh
Tamil  46  $280,018,529  0.737% Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
Telugu  35  $279,699,221  0.736% Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
Malayalam  27  $271,447,134  0.714% Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
German  58  $245,422,641  0.646% Fack ju Göhte 3
Italian  109  $178,030,599  0.469% Call Me by Your Name
Turkish  113  $143,958,536  0.379% Recep Ivedik 5
Teochew  1  $87,969,037  0.232% Chasing the Dragon
Polish  26  $67,190,825  0.177% Listy Do M3
Urdu  13  $58,149,556  0.153% The Big Sick
Thai  7  $43,233,077  0.114% Bad Genius
Dutch  36  $37,742,738  0.099% The Little Vampire
Portuguese  46  $29,345,425  0.077% Polícia Federal: A Lei é Para Todos
Swedish  11  $22,240,167  0.059% Borg vs McEnroe
Arabic  26  $20,801,184  0.055% La Villa
Czech  23  $15,657,408  0.041% Po strništi bos
Danish  8  $12,556,808  0.033% The Square
Hebrew  15  $9,004,011  0.024% Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic …
Slovak  13  $8,239,615  0.022% Všetko alebo nič
Lithuanian  12  $6,734,015  0.018% Trys milijonai eurų
Marathi  2  $6,630,190  0.017% Sachin
Hungarian  8  $5,184,796  0.014% 2017 Oscar Shorts
Basque  4  $4,898,033  0.013% El guardián invisible
Finnish  7  $4,764,065  0.013% Toivon Tuolla Puolen
Punjabi  28  $4,450,042  0.012% Manje Bistre
Yiddish  3  $4,155,876  0.011% Ray
Romanian  4  $3,961,322  0.010% God’s Own Country
Ukrainian  5  $3,928,068  0.010% Čiara
Dinka  1  $3,921,717  0.010% The Nile Hilton Incident
Romany  1  $3,847,465  0.010% Django
Catalan  8  $3,727,958  0.010% Estiu 1993
Greek  5  $3,612,942  0.010% 2017 Oscar Shorts
Norwegian  8  $3,011,538  0.008% Thelma
Bulgarian  18  $2,931,981  0.008% Heights
Akan  1  $2,837,748  0.007% 2017 Oscar Shorts
Latin  2  $2,600,176  0.007% Les Grands esprits
Vietnamese  5  $1,687,399  0.004% Walk with me
Croatian  3  $1,530,042  0.004% Renegades
Bengali  4  $1,428,818  0.004% Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
Persian  13  $1,068,030  0.003% Ava
Farsi  2  $921,251  0.002% Lerd
Filipino  13  $913,737  0.002% Patay na si Hesus
Flemish  5  $811,997  0.002% Le Fidèle
Georgian  4  $793,603  0.002% Chemi Bednieri Ojakhi
Tibetan  3  $750,680  0.002% Pi Sheng Shang de Hun
Swahili  2  $632,283  0.002% Gabriel e a Montanha
Burmese  2  $559,312  0.001% Le vénérable W.
Kannada  7  $397,662  0.001% Vikram Vedha
Silent  3  $350,829  0.001% Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker
Tagalog  9  $334,373  0.001% My Ex and Whys
Maori  2  $316,914  0.001% Waru
Sign Language  1  $301,087  0.001% Cessez-le-feu
Afrikaans  3  $269,924  0.001% Bram Fischer
Lingala  1  $263,744  0.001% Félicité
Ladakhi  1  $259,386  0.001% Becoming Who I Was
Swiss German  2  $209,449  0.001% Die göttliche Ordnung
Indonesian  2  $184,370  0.000% Peregrinação
Kabardian  1  $178,555  0.000% Tesnota
Dari  3  $157,802  0.000% Nothingwood
Samoan  1  $147,924  0.000% One Thousand Ropes
Hokkien  1  $72,031  0.000% Wo De Dan Nan Qing Ren
Icelandic  3  $66,814  0.000% Hjartasteinn
Armenian  1  $65,424  0.000% Architects of Denial
Xhosa  1  $54,874  0.000% Inxeba
Gujarati  3  $51,328  0.000% Love Ni Bhavai
Aramaic  1  $27,917  0.000% Radio Dreams
Somali  1  $26,421  0.000% The Pirates Of Somalia
Serbian  4  $26,385  0.000% Stado
Gaelic  1  $21,343  0.000% Song of Granite
Slovenian  2  $8,147  0.000% Anina Provizija
Creole  1  $5,088  0.000% Bad Lucky Goat
Estonian  1  $3,508  0.000% Teesklejad
Galician  1  $2,684  0.000% Santoalla
Aymaran  1  $1,716  0.000% Eldorado XXI
Quechua  1  $1,716  0.000% Eldorado XXI
Nepali  2  $1,123  0.000% Jatra
Cebuano  1  $856  0.000% El Auge Del Humano
Chechen  1  $199  0.000% La familia chechena
Kurdish  2  $177  0.000% Ugly Duckling
Albanian  2      
Amharic  2      
Haitian Creole  1      
Khmer  1      
Krio  1      
Malagasy  1      
Mongolian  1      
Pashtu  1      
Pushto  1      
Yoruba  1