All 5M+ Languages on the Map

Source: Ethnologue. Counting native speakers, though for some languages only the total number was available.
The colors indicate the language family:
Black: Indo-European
Light blue: Niger-Congo
Green: Austronesian
Pink: Afro-Asiatic
Dark blue: Sino-Tibetan
Purple: other.

Numbers can be outdated or rough estimates

The difference between separate languages or dialects is not clear-cut. I try to be lenient in the type-ins, suggestions are welcome.

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940.9	Mandarin Chinese
485.5	Spanish
380.2	English
345.1	Hindi
236.9	Bengali
236.5	Portuguese
147.6	Russian
123.4	Japanese
86.1	Yue Chinese
85.4	Vietnamese
84.1	Turkish
83.4	Wu Chinese
83.2	Marathi
82.8	Telugu
82.3	Western Punjabi
81.1	Korean
78.7	Tamil
78.4	Egyptian Arabic
76.4	Standard German
73.7	French
69.6	Urdu
68.3	Javanese
63.5	Italian
61.6	Iranian Persian
57.6	Gujarati
53.8	Hausa
52.5	Bhojpuri
51.2	Levantine Arabic
50.6	Min Nan Chinese
48.0	Jinyu Chinese
45.2	Yoruba
43.9	Hakka Chinese
43.7	Kannada
43.7	Indonesian
39.7	Polish
38.1	Xiang Chinese
37.4	Sudanese Arabic
37.0	Malayalam
35.7	Algerian Arabic
34.6	Amharic
34.5	Odia
33.4	Eastern Punjabi

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33.2	Burmese
32.9	Ukrainian
32.5	Sindhi
32.4	Sunda
30.9	Igbo
29.4	Moroccan Arabic
29.2	Tagalog
29.1	Northern Uzbek
25.6	Saraiki
25.2	Romanian
25.1	Sa'idi Arabic
24.7	West Central Oromo
23.8	Somali
23.7	Dutch
22.9	Northern Pashto
22.6	Gan Chinese
21.7	Maithili
21.1	Thai
20.9	Magahi
20.5	Lingala
18.5	Nepali
18.5	Najdi Arabic
17.5	Mesopotamian Arabic
16.6	Khmer
16.6	Nigerian Fulfulde
16.5	Northern Kurdish
16.4	Kazakh
16.3	Chhattisgarhi
16.2	Malay
16.0	Cebuano
15.9	Sinhala
15.3	Assamese
15.0	Northeastern Thai
14.9	Southern Pashto
14.8	Kinyarwanda
14.7	Bavarian
14.4	Chichewa
13.2	Rundi
13.2	Haitian Creole
13.1	Greek
13.0	Chittagonian
12.8	Deccan

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12.6	Bajjika
12.6	Sanaani Arabic
12.4	Hungarian
12.2	Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic
12.1	Zulu
12.0	Cameroon Pidgin
12.0	Tunisian Arabic
11.9	Moòré
11.7	Min Bei Chinese
11.7	South Azerbaijani
11.6	Kituba
11.1	Eastern Oromo
10.9	Min Dong Chinese
10.9	Gulf Arabic
10.8	Hijazi Arabic
10.6	Uyghur
10.5	Rangpuri
10.5	North Mesopotamian Arabic
10.4	Dari
10.3	North Azerbaijani
10.1	Serbian
10.0	Sylheti
10.0	Swedish
10.0	Tajik
9.8	Haryanvi
9.7	Tigrigna
9.6	Czech
9.6	Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo
8.9	Akan
8.6	Yerwa Kanuri
8.2	Gikuyu
8.2	Xhosa
8.1	Sukuma
7.9	Marwari
7.8	Kabyle
7.8	Umbundu
7.8	Madura
7.8	Afrikaans
7.6	Santhali
7.5	Merina Malagasy
7.4	Shona
7.1	Kashmiri

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7.1	Wolof
7.0	Varhadi-Nagpuri
6.7	Bulgarian
6.6	Tsonga
6.5	Paraguayan Guaraní
6.5	Ilocano
6.5	Swiss German
6.4	Luba-Kasai
6.4	Central Pashto
6.3	Ibibio
6.3	Hiligaynon
6.3	Pulaar
6.1	Zarma
6.1	Turkmen
6.0	Kanauji
6.0	Hebrew
6.0	Northern Thai
5.9	Setswana
5.8	Danish
5.8	Tachelhit
5.8	Ganda
5.7	Napoletano
5.6	Bundeli
5.6	Southern Sotho
5.6	Libyan Arabic
5.4	Huizhou Chinese
5.4	Malvi
5.4	Kyrgyz
5.4	Norwegian
5.4	Slovak
5.3	Central Kurdish
5.3	Baoulé
5.3	Dholuo
5.3	Northern Hindko
5.2	Hassaniyya
5.1	Croatian
5.1	Lambadi
5.1	Sadri
5.1	Hadrami Arabic
5.0	Éwé
5.0	Betawi

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Level 68

May 21, 2022

Low German

Level 77

May 21, 2022

The source counts this as several languages.

Regarding the biggest of these (Low Saxon), I think ethnologue made a mistake: they say a total of 2.5 million speakers of which 0.3 L1 and 2.2 L2. Hard to believe many people would learn Low Saxon as a second language.