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200 Most Spoken Languages on a Map

Guess the most spoken languages in the world. Each dot on the map represents the "central point of traditional homeland" of a language, scaled by the amount of speakers.
Source: 2025 edition of the Ethnologue 200 list.
Type-ins have been added for languages divided by country or direction, and for creole/pidgin languages.
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#
Speakers
Answer
1
1.5B
English
2
1.2B
Mandarin Chinese
3
609.1M
Hindi
4
558.5M
Spanish
5
334.8M
Standard Arabic
6
311.9M
French
7
284.3M
Bengali
8
266.6M
Portuguese
9
253.4M
Russian
10
252.4M
Indonesian
11
246.0M
Urdu
12
134.0M
Standard German
13
125.6M
Japanese
14
120.7M
Nigerian Pidgin
15
118.6M
Egyptian Arabic
16
99.3M
Marathi
17
97.0M
Vietnamese
18
95.8M
Telugu
19
94.4M
Hausa
20
91.3M
Turkish
21
90.3M
Western Punjabi
22
87.2M
Swahili
23
86.9M
Tagalog
24
86.3M
Tamil
25
85.7M
Yue Chinese
26
83.4M
Wu Chinese
27
82.6M
Iranian Persian
28
81.6M
Korean
29
71.4M
Thai
30
69.2M
Javanese
31
66.2M
Italian
32
62.5M
Gujarati
33
60.4M
Levantine Arabic
34
60.0M
Amharic
35
59.7M
Kannada
36
52.7M
Bhojpuri
37
52.3M
Sudanese Arabic
38
49.9M
Yoruba
39
48.0M
Jinyu Chinese
40
45.8M
Min Nan Chinese
41
45.3M
Polish
42
44.4M
Burmese
43
41.6M
Algerian Arabic
44
40.7M
Hakka Chinese
45
40.6M
Lingala
46
40.2M
Moroccan Arabic
47
39.5M
Odia
48
39.0M
Ukrainian
49
38.2M
Xiang Chinese
50
38.2M
Malayalam
51
36.9M
Sindhi
52
36.5M
Eastern Punjabi
53
35.5M
Sunda
54
33.7M
Igbo
55
33.4M
Dari
56
33.1M
Nepali
57
29.5M
Malay
58
29.4M
Northern Uzbek
59
27.8M
Zulu
60
27.3M
Sa'idi Arabic
61
27.2M
Northern Pashto
62
27.0M
West Central Oromo
63
25.6M
Saraiki
64
25.4M
Dutch
65
24.7M
Somali
66
23.7M
Romanian
67
23.6M
Assamese
#
Speakers
Answer
68
22.6M
Gan Chinese
69
21.7M
Southern Pashto
70
21.4M
Cebuano
71
21.4M
Kazakh
72
21.0M
Magahi
73
20.9M
Najdi Arabic
74
20.2M
Sinhala
75
20.1M
Mesopotamian Arabic
76
19.2M
Xhosa
77
19.0M
Khmer
78
18.1M
Afrikaans
79
18.0M
Nigerian Fulfulde
80
17.6M
Maithili
81
17.3M
Wolof
82
17.2M
Northern Kurdish
83
16.3M
Chhattisgarhi
84
15.3M
Kinyarwanda
85
15.1M
Northeastern Thai
86
14.5M
Chichewa
87
14.4M
Bamanankan
88
14.1M
Shona
89
13.8M
South Azerbaijani
90
13.7M
Setswana
91
13.7M
Northern Sotho
92
13.7M
Bavarian
93
13.7M
Haitian Creole
94
13.6M
Uyghur
95
13.5M
Southern Sotho
96
13.3M
Greek
97
13.3M
Swedish
98
13.0M
Chittagonian
99
12.9M
Rundi
100
12.8M
Jula
101
12.8M
Deccan
102
12.7M
Bajjika
103
12.6M
Ganda
104
12.6M
Sanaani Arabic
105
12.5M
Tunisian Arabic
106
12.5M
Czech
107
12.4M
Kituba
108
12.3M
Hijazi Arabic
109
12.2M
Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic
110
12.1M
Hungarian
111
12.1M
Sadri
112
12.1M
Eastern Oromo
113
12.0M
Cameroon Pidgin
114
11.9M
North Mesopotamian Arabic
115
11.9M
Moore
116
11.7M
Min Bei Chinese
117
11.5M
Sylheti
118
11.4M
Ibibio
119
11.2M
Congo Swahili
120
10.8M
Rangpuri
121
10.7M
Min Dong Chinese
122
10.7M
Tigrigna
123
10.6M
Tajik
124
10.5M
Hebrew
125
10.4M
Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo
126
10.4M
North Azerbaijani
127
10.3M
Gulf Arabic
128
10.0M
Tsonga
129
10.0M
Akan
130
9.8M
Haryanvi
131
9.8M
Yerwa Kanuri
132
9.3M
Catalan
133
8.5M
Ilocano
134
8.3M
Chadian Arabic
#
Speakers
Answer
135
8.3M
Gikuyu
136
8.3M
Serbian
137
8.1M
Sukuma
138
8.0M
Koongo
139
7.9M
Bulgarian
140
7.9M
Santhali
141
7.9M
Kabyle
142
7.9M
Marwari
143
7.8M
Northern Thai
144
7.8M
Umbundu
145
7.8M
Turkmen
146
7.8M
Madura
147
7.8M
Krio
148
7.5M
Merina Malagasy
149
7.4M
Slovak
150
7.4M
Adamawa Fulfulde
151
7.3M
Central Pashto
152
7.2M
Kashmiri
153
7.1M
Luba-Kasai
154
7.0M
Pulaar
155
7.0M
Varhadi-Nagpuri
156
6.8M
Indian Sign Language
157
6.6M
Paraguayan Guaraní
158
6.5M
Swiss German
159
6.5M
Croatian
160
6.4M
Hainanese
161
6.3M
Hiligaynon
162
6.1M
Kyrgyz
163
6.1M
Libyan Arabic
164
6.1M
Central Kurdish
165
6.0M
Kanauji
166
6.0M
Southern Kurdish
167
5.8M
Tachelhit
168
5.8M
Danish
169
5.8M
Éwé
170
5.7M
Napoletano
171
5.6M
Hassaniyya
172
5.6M
Bundeli
173
5.6M
Finnish
174
5.6M
Minangkabau
175
5.5M
Norwegian
176
5.4M
Malvi
177
5.3M
Huizhou Chinese
178
5.3M
Zarma
179
5.3M
Baoulé
180
5.3M
Kamba
181
5.3M
Dholuo
182
5.2M
Sango
183
5.1M
Hadrami Arabic
184
5.1M
Lambadi
185
5.1M
Hazaragi
186
5.0M
Sidaama
187
5.0M
Ghanaian Pidgin English
188
5.0M
Liberian Pidgin English
189
5.0M
Tiv
190
4.9M
Pular
191
4.9M
Gheg Albanian
192
4.8M
Tatar
193
4.8M
Awadhi
194
4.7M
Swati
195
4.7M
Sicilian
196
4.7M
Southern Uzbek
197
4.7M
Shan
198
4.7M
Luba-Katanga
199
4.7M
Lao
200
4.5M
Southern Thai
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4 Comments
jumanjilover
+2
Level 52
Jun 26, 2025
Okay! Okay okay okay! Here we go!
DwarvinBishnu
+1
Level 83
Jun 26, 2025
Tigrinya and Kongo are both misspelled. Otherwise good quiz!
bz
+1
Level 60
Jun 27, 2025
Added those as type ins - I imagine a bunch of these languages have different romanizations, I'll progressively add them as type-ins when people want them.
ooftownroad
+2
Level 70
Aug 13, 2025
Can you accept Azeri for Azerbaijani, Tswana for Setswana, Kirundi for Rundi, and Tshiluba for Luba-Katanga?
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