Most Widely Spoken Languages on Each Continent

Try to name the languages that have the most native speakers on each continent.
Sources include : talkafricana.com, Wikipedia, babbel.com, translinguist.com, worldschoolbooks.com, brittanica.com & grokipedia.com
Left hand column of each block shows the approximate number of native speakers on each continent
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Africa
250,000,000
English
170,000,000
Arabic
120,000,000
French
100,000,000
Swahili
75,000,000
Hausa
57,000,000
Amharic
50,000,000
Yoruba
 
 
Asia
1,300,000,000
Mandarin
615,000,000
Hindi
313,000,000
Arabic
270,000,000
Bahasa Indonesia
260,000,000
Russian
230,000,000
Bengali
130,000,000
Persian
Europe
106,000,000
Russian
85,000,000
German
67,000,000
English
67,000,000
French
58,000,000
Italian
40,000,000
Spanish
38,000,000
Polish
 
 
North America
334,000,000
English
125,000,000
Spanish
18,000,000
French
4,600,000
Chinese
2,000,000
Tagalog
1,400,000
Vietnamese
1,300,000
German
Oceania
25,000,000
English
4,000,000
Tok Pisin
902,400
Mandarin
853,200
Hindi
630,000
French
618,000
Punjabi
380,800
Cantonese
 
 
South America
215,754,600
Portuguese
214,265,000
Spanish
7,735,620
Quechua
6,925,850
English
6,162,790
Guarani
3,000,000
Hunsrik
1,677,100
Aymara
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Level 69
Feb 26, 2026
Just a few notes on this quiz. There was no definitive source on the languages of Oceania, so I have compiled these figures from a few different sources. Number of speakers of Fijian Hindi has been included in the total numbers for Hindi in Oceania. I have not included Pidgin as a type in for Tok Pisin as it is a just one of many variations of Pidgin English, in Oceania and elsewhere. In North America the number of speakers of Chinese dialects was all counted together by the source, and I could not find another definitive source. So Chinese is included as a typo for Mandarin and Cantonese on the other continents.
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Level 69
Feb 26, 2026
If anyone is curious the picture at the top of the quiz is of a tsunami warning in Suva, Fiji; written in English, Fijian and Fijian Hindi. In the case of tsunami, 'leg it!'.