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Top World Languages Quiz

This is a list of the top 50 world languages by estimated number of native speakers. How many can you guess?
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*Language
845M
329M
328M
242.6M
221M
181M
178M
144M
122M
90.3M
84.6M
78.3M
77.2M
*Language
75M
72M
69.8M
68.6M
68.1M
67.8M
65.7M
61.7M
59M
55.5M
48.9M
46.5M
46.2M
*Language
45M
40M
39.4M
39.1M
38.5M
36M
35.7M
35.4M
34M
32.3M
31.7M
30M
*Language
24.2M
23.4M
23.2M
21.7M
21M
20.3M
20M
19.7M
19.1M
19M
18.5M
16.6M
Answer Stats
* Millions of native speakers. According to Ethnologue: Languages of the World estimate, 2005.
supersam
25/50. I missed some obvious languages like Dutch and Cantonese.
2010-07-07
beccalinda
Never knew some of these existed, like Ukrainian. I thought they spoke Russian there.
2010-07-25
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