| American Indian : including Mayan, Quechua and 750-1,000 other languages and dialects |
15,000,000 |
| Amharic (Ethiopia) |
5,600,000 |
| Annamese (Indo-China) |
20,000,000 |
| Arabic |
65,000,000 |
| Bantu: including Swahili,Zulu (S. Africa) |
45,000,000 |
| Bengali (India; Pakistan) |
70,000,000 |
| Berber dialects (N. Africa) |
6,000,000 |
| Bihari (India) |
35,000,000 |
| Bisayan (Philippines) |
9,000,000 |
| Bulgarian |
7,000,000 |
| Burmese |
13,000,000 |
| Catalan (Spain) |
6,000,000 |
| Chinese: including Mandarin, Cantonese and others |
450,000,000 |
| Cushitic : including Somali (Ethiopia) |
7,000,000 |
| Czech |
8,500,000 |
| Dravidian: including Kanarese, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu (India) |
95,000,000 |
| Dutch |
11,000,000 |
| English |
260,000,000 |
| Ethiopian: including Amharic |
6,400,000 |
| Finno-Ugric : including Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Karelian, Lappish |
21,500,000 |
| Flemish (Belgium) |
5,000,000 |
| French |
65,000,000 |
| German |
100,000,000 |
| Greek |
8,000,000 |
| Gujarati (India; Pakistan) |
20,000,000 |
| Hausa (Central Africa) |
9,000,000 |
| Hindi (India; Pakistan) |
180,000,000 |
| Hungarian |
13,000,000 |
| Indic: including Assamese, Bengali, Bihari, Gujarati, Hindi, Lahnda, Marathi, Orlya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sindhi, Sinhalese |
415,000,000 |
| Indonesian: including Balinese, Bisayan, Ilocano, Javanese, Madurese, Malay, Malagasy, Sundanese, Tagalog |
105,000,000 |
| Iranian: including Baluchi, Kurdish, Persian, Pushtu |
26,500,000 |
| Italian |
50,000,000 |
| Japanese |
90,000,000 |
| Javanese |
41,000,000 |
| Kanarese (India) |
16,000,000 |
| Korean |
30,000,000 |
| Lahnda (India; Pakistan) |
13,000,000 |
| Madurese (Indonesia) |
6,500,000 |
| Malay (Indonesia) |
14,000,000 |
| Malayalam (India) |
12,000,000 |
| Marathi (India) |
25,000,000 |
| Munda (India) |
5,000,000 |
| Orlya (India) |
13,000,000 |
| Persian |
12,000,000 |
| Polish |
30,000,000 |
| Portuguese |
63,000,000 |
| Punjabi (India; Pakistan) |
22,000,000 |
| Pushtu (Afghanistan; Pakistan) |
8,000,000 |
| Rajasthani (India; Pakistan) |
17,000,000 |
| Rumanian |
16,000,000 |
| Russian |
200,000,000 |
| Serbo-Croatian (Yugoslavia) |
15,000,000 |
| Siamese |
16,000,000 |
| Sinhalese (Ceylon) |
5,500,000 |
| Spanish |
140,000,000 |
| Sudanic: including Hausa (Central Africa) |
75,000,000 |
| Sundanese (Indonesia) |
13,000,000 |
| Swahili (E. Africa) |
8,000,000 |
| Swedish |
7,000,000 |
| Tagalog (Philippines) |
5,000,000 |
| Tamil (India) |
27,000,000 |
| Telugu (India) |
33,000,000 |
| Tibeto-Burman: including Tibetan and Burmese |
20,000,000 |
| Turkic: including Kazakh, Tartar, Turkish, Uzbek |
45,000,000 |
| Turkish |
20,000,000 |
| Uzbek (U.S.S.R.) |
6,000,000 |
| Yiddish |
5,000,000 |
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