Statistics for Languages by the number of speakers

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Rank	Speakers (Millions)	Percentage of World Population (March 2019)	Language Family	Branch	Answer	% Correct
3	379	4.922%	Indo-European	Germanic	English	100%
8	128	1.662%	Japonic	Japanese	Japanese	100%
2	480	5.994%	Indo-European	Romance	Spanish	100%
15	77.2	1.003%	Indo-European	Romance	French	97%
16	76.1	0.988%	Indo-European	Germanic	German	97%
22	64.8	0.842%	Indo-European	Romance	Italian	94%
7	154	2.000%	Indo-European	Balto-Slavic	Russian	90%
4	341	4.429%	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	Hindi	87%
14	77.3	1.004%	Koreanic	language isolate	Korean	87%
6	221	2.870%	Indo-European	Romance	Portuguese	84%
13	79.4	1.031%	Turkic	Oghuz	Turkish	81%
5	300	4.000%	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	Bengali	68%
20	68.6	0.891%	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	Urdu	68%
18	75.0	0.974%	Dravidian	South	Tamil	55%
24	56.4	0.732%	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	Gujarati	48%
32	43.4	0.564%	Austronesian	Malayo-Polynesian	Indonesian	48%
1	918	11.922%	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	Mandarin Chinese	48%
33	39.7	0.516%	Indo-European	Balto-Slavic	Polish	48%
10	83.1	1.079%	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	Marathi	42%
21	68.3	0.887%	Austronesian	Malayo-Polynesian	Javanese	29%
23	64.6	0.839%	Afroasiatic	Semitic	Egyptian Arabic	26%
30	43.9	0.570%	Afroasiatic	Chadic	Hausa	26%
31	43.6	0.566%	Dravidian	South	Kannada	26%
12	81.4	1.057%	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	Wu Chinese	26%
28	48.2	0.626%	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	Hakka	19%
34	37.8	0.491%	Niger-Congo	Volta-Niger	Yoruba	19%
19	73.1	0.949%	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	Yue Chinese	13%
26	52.2	0.678%	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	Bhojpuri	10%
29	46.9	0.609%	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	Jin Chinese	6%
9	92.7	1.204%	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	Western Punjabi	6%
35	37.3	0.484%	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	Xiang Chinese	6%
25	52.8	0.686%	Indo-European	Iranian	Iranian Persian	3%
27	50.1	0.651%	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	Southern Min	3%
11	82.0	1.065%	Dravidian	South-Central	Telegu	3%
17	76.0	0.987%	Austroasiatic	Vietic	Viatnamese	0%