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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
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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
triviamomma
It would be great if you could add the major country that speaks this language. some I can't tell whether they're eastern european or far eastern or Indian.
2010-09-13
marceloOrigoni
I don't know half of the laguages there, I thought most of the ex ussr spoke russian, most of the languages seem far esatern specially from china, india and indonesia.
2010-10-20
PinkK
I like this quiz cause it gives you an idea that there are millions of people who have one common language that we never think about, like Bengali. All of the Ex USSR inhabitants had to learn Russian in school. You could not do without Russian. Ukrainian does not look too far from Russian for me, and I only know a bit of Russian, but it definitely sounds more like German in a way.
2011-03-01
WoozyB
Pashto instead of Pashtun! Also, wow India and China ...
2011-03-11
KatM
LOL, people seem to know madarin, but not cantonese? They are very similar languages, somethings are pronounced the same sometimes.
2011-03-20
The Gambler
very pleased with a 22. missed about 4 i should have gotten, but burmese and serbian were complete stabs in the dark that i got right.
2011-06-04
ilovegeographymuchly
proud that I got Tagalog and Min, but some of these languages, like Bhojpuri, I've never heard if!
2011-06-08
Bhenn10
Cantonese can also be called Wu, Min can be Taiwanese...and I wrote Bahasa for Indonesian, doesn't that count?
2011-07-09
Bhenn10
pardon my past entry...I meant Yue instead of Wu. Also, 38 million people speak Awadhi and 31 million speak Marwari
2011-07-09
GreenPuffle92
Urdu and Hindi are DIFFERENT languages even though they sound a bit the same. It's a bit racist calling Urdu and Hindi same languages..!
Quizmaster replies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_language
2011-07-11
cruth
I didn't know how to spell Hindustani.
2011-07-16
ZomgPancakes
It is not racism to group two languages together (especially for the purpose of generalized identification). Firstly, there is a lack of any race of which to speak, and secondly, there is no prejudice being directed at anyone with regard to whether they speak Urdu or Hindi. Please do not throw the word "racism" around as if it was synonymous with "unfair" in any way. On a different note, is there perhaps a name for the Scandinavian languages as a whole, as they are mutually understandable? If so, then surely their numbers would reach this list (and kick Serbo-Croatian's butt).
2011-08-01
quizwiz30
got 34/50 not bad for the first time... humbs up
2011-09-03
quizwiz30
i mean thumbs
2011-09-03
Pavar0tti
21/50 Only ones I'm ashamed of failing are Polish and Arabic. Never heard of Maithili, Uzbek or most of the ones I failed.
2011-09-04
Iain
Serbo Croat should be accepted
Quizmaster replies:
Okay. That will work now.
2011-09-17
Bhenn10
ummmm...Cantonese is STILL called Yue....
2011-09-21
theLAYTshow
21/50, should of got Polish. Couldn't for the life of me think of any languages spoken in Africa - I kept trying Swahili
2011-10-26
pigsnoutman
Shows how I'm politically niave
2011-12-06
BlendedCow
THAT was tough. Missed Japanese!!!!!!!!!!!!
2012-01-26
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