Five Languages with the Most Total Speakers by Continent

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

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.

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

There are also around 600,000 native Mandarin speakers and 400,000 native Tagalog speakers in Canada, so the numbers should probably be a fair bit higher than they already are (hard to say for second language speakers, however).

I think Haitian Creole should be in North America.

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)

Quechua is spelled wrong.

No Haitian Creole for North America?

That's wrong.

Asian has way less Russian speakers. Like 50-70 million maximum, not 240

I’m pretty sure Bengali is missing from Asia erroneously. It’s the 7th most spoken language in the world with the majority of it concentrated in Bangladesh and parts of India.

Great Quiz! One weird thing, when I typed Russian, bengali appeared, and when I typed Malay, it showed Arabic for Asia

Can you accept Tagolog?

Both Canada and US are equally split when it comes to Mandarin vs Cantonese speakers. Between the two countries, there's a million speakers of each. The number in the quiz seems to be a total of both, you might consider reviewing that number. The official Chinese policy is to promote Mandarin and consider the other languages including Cantonese as local dialects. However, the Guangzhou-Hong Kong area from where Cantonese is dominant is also the traditional source of North American immigration. In Vancouver, Cantonese immigration is still more common than Mandarin given its connection to Hong Kong. Politics in the Vancouver Chinese community often focus on this difference.

Nahuatl has over 1.7 million speakers in Mexico

Nommed, deserves to be featured

I should have remembered Guarani and Hausa. Bengali and the oceanic languages were hardest to guess. Good quizzz