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Top Five Languages by Language Family

Name the five most spoken languages for each language branch given.
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Last updated: August 13, 2019
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First submittedMay 11, 2016
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Average score73.3%
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Romance
405 mil
Spanish
215 mil
Portuguese
74 mil
French
60 mil
Italian
24 mil
Romanian
 
 
Germanic
360 mil
English
89 mil
German
21 mil
Dutch
9 mil
Swedish
7 mil
Afrikaans
Slavic
155 mil
Russian
40 mil
Polish
30 mil
Ukrainian
19 mil
Serbo-Croatian
10 mil
Czech
 
 
Celtic
2 mil
Irish
947,700
Welsh
356,000
Breton
87,056
Scottish
3,000
Cornish
Indo-Iranian
310 mil
Hindi
205 mil
Bengali
102 mil
Punjabi
75 mil
Marathi
50 mil
Gujarati
 
 
Uralic
13 mil
Hungarian
5 mil
Finnish
1 mil
Estonian
390,000
Erzya
390,000
Moksha
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Level 76
May 11, 2016
cool idea!
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Level 65
May 11, 2016
Thanks.
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Level 65
May 11, 2016
Wow! People got Erzya and Moksha!
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Level 50
Oct 15, 2016
perisian in Indo-Iranian??
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Level 65
Oct 15, 2016
Persian only has 45 million speakers.
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Level 31
Apr 7, 2017
i had no idea persian was part of the same language family as hindi and punjabi
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Level 65
Apr 7, 2017
Learn something new
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Level 66
Jan 19, 2019
nice one!
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Level 60
May 25, 2019
how does french have only 74 million speakers? i think this quiz is badly sourced
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Level 65
May 25, 2019
This is first-language speakers, so the low number probably results from Africans speaking their native or tribal tongue first.
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Level 62
Aug 13, 2019
Good quiz. Can you make Gaelic - and perhaps Erse - work for 'Scottish'. Also, are there really more speakers of Cornish than Manx?
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Level 56
Dec 22, 2020
I like it! Ain't no such language as "Scottish" though - the closest thing is Scots, which isn't Celtic. You really want "Scottish Gaelic". Nominated anyway.
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Level 45
Aug 3, 2021
Change ‘Scottish’ to Scottish Gaelic or just Gaelic, it’s never called Scottish
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Level 54
Dec 26, 2022
Scottish is typically another term for Scots, which is not a Celtic language. Scots Gaelic is the correct term I think for what you mean. Otherwise great quiz!
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Level 44
Mar 3, 2024
LOVE quizzes with my native language (erzya) in it