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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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| First submitted | January 10, 2017 |
| Last updated | February 23, 2017 |
| Times taken | 1,272 |
| Rating | 4.73 |
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scambigol
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level 71
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
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level 59
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
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level 67
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
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level 59
Jan 11, 2017
Thanks! I knew I was missing either a couple from North America or from Oceania :) Appreciated
kempo
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level 77
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
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level 59
Jan 12, 2017
Thanks for the data!
ivs
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level 78
Jan 13, 2017
Why typing Chinese gives Mandarin for Asia but not for North America?
Quizzer6794
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level 59
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
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level 70
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
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level 59
Feb 22, 2017
Found the numbers and added them to the quiz!
damangio
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level 32
Feb 23, 2017
Quechua is spelled wrong.
ludvigrassmus
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level 50
Jun 15, 2019
No Haitian Creole for North America?
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