Statistics for 50 Most Spoken Languages Worldwide

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Number Of People Speaking (Millions)	Answer	% Correct
480	English	99%
1120	Mandarin Chinese	98%
332	Spanish	98%
72	French	96%
77.2	Wu Chinese	95%
235	Arabic	94%
34	Hakka Chinese	94%
36	Xiang Chinese	94%
20.6	Gan Chinese	93%
98	German	93%
45	Jinyu Chinese	93%
49	Min Nan Chinese	93%
180	Russian	93%
125	Japanese	91%
59	Italian	90%
170	Portuguese	90%
182	Hindi	89%
75	Korean	84%
20	Dutch	80%
44	Polish	80%
67.7	Vietnamese	78%
20	Thai	77%
69	Turkish	77%
58	Urdu	71%
189	Bengali	69%
37.3	Persian	67%
41	Ukrainian	66%
26	Romanian	65%
63.1	Tamil	60%
26	Eastern Punjabi	57%
30	Western Punjabi	57%
21	Serbo-Croatian	54%
22	Burmese	51%
75.5	Javanese	45%
64.8	Marathi	42%
66	Cantonese	41%
66.4	Telugu	39%
44	Gujarati	37%
34	Malayalam	33%
20	Yoruba	33%
33.7	Kannada	30%
24.2	Hausa	29%
27	Sunda	22%
19.7	Sindhi	19%
25	Bhojpuri	16%
24.3	Maithili	12%
31	Oriya	12%
24.4	Azrbaijani	5%
20.5	Awadhi	3%