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
75 mil
French
59 mil
Italian
40 mil
Polish
34 mil
Hausa
30 mil
Ukrainian
28 mil
Yoruba
25 mil
Amharic
24 mil
Romanian
24 mil
Oromo
24 mil
Igbo
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.