Most Spoken Languages by Family - Updated 2019 - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Family Branch Sub-branch Language Native speakers (millions) % Correct
Indo-European Germanic West Germanic English 379
98%
Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic Russian 154
98%
Indo-European Italic Romance Spanish 480
98%
Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Bavarian 14.1
97%
Indo-European Italic Romance French 77.2
97%
Indo-European Germanic West Germanic German 76.1
97%
Indo-European Italic Romance Italian 64.8
97%
Indo-European Italic Romance Portuguese 221
97%
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Malayic Indonesian 43.4
96%
Sino-Tibetan Chinese Mandarin Chinese 918
96%
Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Algerian Arabic 29.4
95%
Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Egyptian Arabic 64.6
95%
Indo-European Hellenic Greek 13.1
95%
Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Hejazi Arabic 14.5
95%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Hindi 341
95%
Koreanic Korean 77.3
95%
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Malayic Malay 16.1
95%
Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Mesopotamian Arabic 15.7
95%
Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Moroccan Arabic 27.5
95%
Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic North Levantine Arabic 24.6
95%
Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Saʽidi Arabic 22.4
95%
Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Sanaani Arabic 11.4
95%
Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic South Levantine Arabic 11.6
95%
Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Sudanese Arabic 31.9
95%
Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Taʽizzi-Adeni Arabic 10.5
95%
Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Tunisian Arabic 11.6
95%
Turkic Southern Turkic Turkish 79.4
95%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Iranian Persian 52.8
94%
Indo-European Italic Romance Romanian 24.3
94%
Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic Ukrainian 27.3
94%
Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Dutch 23.1
93%
Japonic Japanese 128
93%
Kra–Dai Tai Thai 20.7
93%
Sino-Tibetan Chinese Wu Chinese 81.4
93%
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Philippine Tagalog 23.6
92%
Austroasiatic Vietic Vietnamese 76.0
92%
Sino-Tibetan Chinese Yue Chinese 73.1
92%
Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic Polish 39.7
90%
Sino-Tibetan Lolo-Burmese Burmese 32.9
89%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Bengali 228
87%
Dravidian Southern Dravidian Tamil 75.0
87%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Urdu 68.6
87%
Turkic Eastern Turkic Northern Uzbek 25.1
86%
Turkic Western Turkic Kazakh 12.9
85%
Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic Czech 10.7
83%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Northern Pashto 20.9
83%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Southern Pashto 10.9
83%
Niger–Congo Volta–Congo Igboid Igbo 27.0
82%
Uralic Ugric Hungarian 12.6
81%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Punjabi 32.6
79%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Punjabi 92.7
79%
Afro-Asiatic Semitic South Semitic Amharic 21.9
74%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Gujarati 56.4
74%
Turkic Southern Turkic South Azerbaijani 13.8
74%
Austroasiatic Khmer 16.6
72%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Marathi 83.1
69%
Niger–Congo Volta–Congo Defoid Yoruba 37.8
69%
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Javanese 68.3
68%
Dravidian South-Central Dravidian Telugu 82.0
68%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Northern Kurdish 14.6
66%
Niger–Congo Volta–Congo Bantu Zulu 12.1
65%
Afro-Asiatic Chadic Hausa 43.9
64%
Dravidian Southern Dravidian Kannada 43.6
64%
Dravidian Southern Dravidian Malayalam 37.1
64%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Nepali 15.8
63%
Sino-Tibetan Chinese Min Nan Chinese 50.1
61%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Sinhalese 15.3
59%
Turkic Eastern Turkic Uyghur 10.4
58%
Sino-Tibetan Chinese Hakka Chinese 48.2
57%
Sino-Tibetan Chinese Min Bei Chinese 11.0
57%
Sino-Tibetan Chinese Min Dong Chinese 10.3
57%
Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Somali 16.2
56%
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Sunda 32.4
52%
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Philippine Cebuano 15.9
51%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Sindhi 24.6
51%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Odia 34.5
50%
Sino-Tibetan Chinese Xiang Chinese 37.3
50%
Niger–Congo Senegambian Nigerian Fulfulde 14.5
45%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Assamese 15.3
42%
Sino-Tibetan Chinese Jinyu Chinese 46.9
41%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Maithili 33.9
41%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Bhojpuri 52.2
40%
Sino-Tibetan Chinese Gan Chinese 22.1
36%
Niger–Congo Volta–Congo Bantu Kinyarwanda 12.1
32%
Niger–Congo Volta–Congo Bantu Rundi 10.8
25%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Chhattisgarhi 16.3
19%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Chittagonian 13.0
16%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Deccan 12.8
14%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Magahi 20.7
14%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Sylheti 10.3
14%
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Saraiki 20.0
12%
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