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Most-Spoken World Languages

Name the 100 most-spoken world languages by FIRST LANGUAGE SPEAKERS. For all but the first 20, a clue about the language's categorization (often a family or subfamily) is given. I tried to make the clues useful.
From http://www2.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/g101ilec/intro/clt/cltclt/top100.html - I have NOT combined or renamed languages as people typically do
Languages with the same name (for instance, Egyptian and Algerian Arabic) are not grouped but can be guessed with the name of the language (Arabic); Chinese is not considered one language, nor is Hindustani
Language categorizations do not equal countries; not all Iranian languages are spoken in Iran, or Tai languages in Thailand
Let me know of type-in issues - I'm rusty and this was a lot
Quiz by CLD99
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Last updated: December 23, 2022
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Language
1
Mandarin
2
Spanish
3
English
4
Bengali
5
Hindi
6
Portuguese
7
Russian
8
Japanese
9
Standard German
10
Wu
11
Javanese
12
Korean
13
French
14
Vietnamese
15
Telugu
16
Yue
17
Marathi
18
Tamil
19
Turkish
20
Urdu
Sinitic
Min Nan
Sinitic
Jinyu
Indo-Aryan
Gujarati
Slavic
Polish
Semitic
Egyptian Arabic
Slavic
Ukrainian
Romance
Italian
Sinitic
Xiang
Dravidian
Malayalam
Sinitic
Hakka
Dravidian
Kannada
Indo-Aryan
Oriya
Indo-Aryan
Western Punjabi
Austronesian
Sunda
Hint
Language
Indo-Aryan
Eastern Punjabi
Romance
Romanian
Indo-Aryan
Bhojpuri
Turkic
South Azerbaijani
Iranian
Western Farsi
Indo-Aryan
Maithili
Chadic
Hausa
Semitic
Algerian Arabic
Tibeto-Burman
Burmese
Slavic
Serbo-Croatian
Sinitic
Gan
Indo-Aryan
Awadhi
Tai
Thai
Germanic
Dutch
Atlantic-Congo
Yoruba
Indo-Aryan
Sindhi
Semitic
Moroccan Arabic
Semitic
Saidi Arabic
Turkic
Northern Uzbek
Austronesian
Malay
Semitic
Amharic
Austronesian
Indonesian
Atlantic-Congo
Igbo
Austronesian
Tagalog
Indo-Aryan
Nepali
Semitic
Sudanese Arabic
Indo-Aryan
Saraiki
Austronesian
Cebuano
Semitic
North Levantine Arabic
Tai
Northeastern Thai
Indo-Aryan
Assamese
Uralic
Hungarian
Indo-Aryan
Chittagonian
Hint
Language
Semitic
Mesopotamian Arabic
Austronesian
Madura
Indo-Aryan
Sinhala
Indo-Aryan
Haryanvi
Indo-Aryan
Marwari
Slavic
Czech
Hellenic
Greek
Indo-Aryan
Magahi
Indo-Aryan
Chhattisgarhi
Indo-Aryan
Deccan
Sinitic
Min Bei
Slavic
Belarusian
Tai
Northern Zhuang
Semitic
Najdi Arabic
Iranian
Northern Pashto
Cushitic
Somali
Austronesian
Malagasy
Semitic
Tunisian Arabic
Atlantic-Congo
Kinyarwanda
Atlantic-Congo
Zulu
Slavic
Bulgarian
Germanic
Swedish
Romance
Lombard
Cushitic
West-Central Oromo
Iranian
Southern Pashto
Turkic
Kazakh
Austronesian
Ilocano
Turkic
Tatar
Atlantic-Congo
Nigerian Fulfulde
Semitic
Sanaani Arabic
Turkic
Uyghur
French Creole
Haitian Creole
Turkic
North Azerbaijani
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