Most Spoken Non-Official Languages

Name the languages that are most commonly spoken in the world, but do not have official status in any country. Only languages with more than 10 million speakers are included.

Some have official status in specific regions of a country

Some are sometimes considered to be dialects; the distinction isn't precise

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Answer	# of speakers	Official in	Also spoken in
Nigerian Pidgin	120.7 million		Nigeria
Cantonese	85.6 million	Hong Kong; Macau	Southern China
Egyptian Arabic	83 million		Egypt
Javanese	82 million	Yogyakarta (Indonesa)	Java (Indonesia)
Wu	81.8 million		Shanghai, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu (China)
Jin	63.1 million		Northern China
Algerian Arabic	42.5 million		Algeria
Sundanese	42 million		Java and Sumatra (Indonesia)
Mesopotamian Arabic	41.2 million		Iraq, eastern Syria, Kuwait, western Iran
Xiang	38 million		Hunan (China) and surrounding provinces
Sudanese Arabic	31.9 million		Sudan, Eritrea, and South Sudan
Moroccan Arabic	31.6 million		Morocco
Saraiki	26 million		Pakistan
North Levantine Arabic	24.6 million		Lebanon, western Syria, southern Turkey
Sa'idi Arabic	22.4 million		Upper Egypt
Gan	22 million		Jiangxi (China) and surrounding provinces
Cebuano	22 million	Philippines (recognized minority language)

Answer	# of speakers	Official in	Also spoken in
Magahi	20.7 million	India (recognized minority language)
Chhattisgarhi	18 million	Chhattisgarh (India)
Kurmanji	15.7 million	Kurdistan (Iraq); Rojava (Syria); Armenia (recognized minority language)	Northern Iran
Assamese	15.3 million	Assam (India)	Northeast India
Hejazi Arabic	14.5 million		Hejaz (Saudi Arabia)
Fula	14.5 million	Benin (recognized minority language); Cameroon (recognized minority language)	Nigeria; Mali; Senegal; Niger; Burkina Faso; Chad; Guinea; Gambia; Guinea-Bissau
Bavarian	14 million		Austria; Bavaria (Germany); South Tyrol (Italy)
Chittagonian	13 million		Chittagong (Bangladesh)
Deccani	12.8 million		Southern India
South Levantine Arabic	11.6 million		Israel; Jordan; Palestine; southern Syria
Tunisian Arabic	11.6 million		Tunisia
Sanaani Spoken Arabic	11.4 million		Northern Yemen
Northern Min	11 million		Nanping (China)
Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic	10.5 million		Yemen; Djibouti
Uyghur	10.4 million	Xinjiang (China)
Eastern Min	10.3 million	Matsu Islands (Taiwan)	Southeast China; Taiwan
Sylheti	10.3 million		Bangladesh; eastern India