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Five Languages with the Most Total Speakers by Continent

For each continent, can you name the five languages with the most total speakers?

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Last updated: February 23, 2017

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Africa
200,200,000	Arabic
190,100,000	English
120,720,000	French
80,000,000	Swahili
40,000,000	Hausa

Asia
1,075,000,000	Mandarin
550,000,000	Hindi
444,450,000	English
240,000,000	Russian
230,000,000	Indonesian

Europe
263,225,800	English
115,315,000	French
104,950,600	Russian
97,244,378	German
80,000,000	Italian

North America
307,200,000	English
235,140,000	Spanish
12,670,000	French
2,882,497	Mandarin
1,594,413	Tagalog

Oceania
34,100,000	English
4,125,000	Tok Pisin
665,000	Fijian
400,000	Fiji Hindi
150,000	Māori

South America
207,000,000	Portuguese
204,925,000	Spanish
17,983,658	English
10,000,000	Quechua
8,000,000	Guarani

scambigol

level 70

Jan 11, 2017

how does Italian reach 80M? not sure how Malay/Indonesian work but having typed Malay I thought that would have counted towards Indonesian

Quizzer6794

level 57

Jan 11, 2017

Malay will now work. According to this page, Italian has 85 million speakers worldwide (keep in mind this includes non-native speakers). In the Americas, there are just about 4 million. Assuming that Asia and Africa equal near 1 million, we rounded and subtracted to a total of 80 million. It seems like a far off number but it looks like it could make sense taking into account nearby European countries that also speak Italian or have Italian as one of their major languages.

jriddycuz

level 68

Jan 11, 2017

Surprised not to see Tok Pisin on there, which has few native speakers but about 4 million L2 speakers. It's the most commonly spoken language in Papua New Guinea. Also Fijian has like 600 k speakers.

Quizzer6794

level 57

Jan 11, 2017

Thanks! I knew I was missing either a couple from North America or from Oceania :) Appreciated

kempo

level 76

Jan 12, 2017

United States alone has thirteen languages with more than 675,000 native speakers, including 2.88 million for different varieties of Chinese, 1.59 million for Tagalog, and 1.14 million for Korean. http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acs-22.pdf

Quizzer6794

level 57

Jan 12, 2017

Thanks for the data!

ivs

level 76

Jan 13, 2017

Why typing Chinese gives Mandarin for Asia but not for North America?

Quizzer6794

level 57

Feb 16, 2017

Any corrections to make? We want this quiz to be as accurate as possible, so please comment if you see a mistake!!

carawebo

level 69

Feb 21, 2017

I think I told you on the other quiz. The numbers for South America are in conflict with the other one (quechua and other had millions of native speakers)

Quizzer6794

level 57

Feb 22, 2017

Found the numbers and added them to the quiz!

damangio

level 32

Feb 23, 2017

Quechua is spelled wrong.