Most Spoken World Languages with Exceptions

What are the most spoken languages that originated outside of Asia?
Count includes only native speakers
Not including Turkish
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Language
405 mil
Spanish
360 mil
English
215 mil
Portuguese
110 mil
Russian
89 mil
German
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Language
75 mil
French
59 mil
Italian
40 mil
Polish
34 mil
Hausa
30 mil
Ukrainian
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Language
28 mil
Yoruba
25 mil
Amharic
24 mil
Romanian
24 mil
Oromo
24 mil
Igbo
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Language
21 mil
Dutch
19 mil
Serbo-Croatian
18 mil
Malagasy
15 mil
Somali
13 mil
Hungarian
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Level 66
May 9, 2017
I was expecting more African Languages. I was surprised when I learned that Zulu, Swahili, and Afrikaans all had less than 11 million speakers.
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Level 65
May 10, 2017
Native speakers, that is.:)
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Level 59
May 10, 2017
What about amharic? There should be around 36 million native speakers.... Or do you count it as asian since it's Afro-Asiatic?
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Level 65
May 10, 2017
Thanks! I fixed the quiz.
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Level 82
Jul 11, 2018
Akan has 22 million speakers according to Wikipedia.