Most Spoken Tonal Languages

Name the all languages that use lexical tone with over 10 million speakers.

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Speakers	Answer	Language Family
1 138 000 000	Mandarin	Sino-Tibetan
119 000 000	Punjabi	Indo-European
87 000 000	Yue Chinese (incl. Cantonese)	Sino-Tibetan
86 000 000	Vietnamese	Austroasiatic
83 000 000	Wu Chinese (incl. Shanghainese)	Sino-Tibetan
79 000 000	Hausa	Afroasiatic
75 000 000	Min Chinese (incl. Hokkien)	Sino-Tibetan
61 000 000	Thai	Kra-Dai
48 000 000	Jin Chinese	Sino-Tibetan
47 000 000	Hakka Chinese	Sino-Tibetan
46 000 000	Yoruba	Niger-Congo
42 000 000	Igbo	Niger-Congo
40 000 000	Lingala	Niger-Congo
38 000 000	Xiang Chinese	Sino-Tibetan
38 000 000	Burmese	Sino-Tibetan
37 000 000	Oromo (disputed)	Afroasiatic
30 000 000	Lao	Kra-Dai
22 000 000	Gan Chinese	Sino-Tibetan
27 000 000	Zulu	Niger-Congo
22 000 000	Somali (disputed)	Afroasiatic

Speakers	Answer	Language Family
20 000 000	Xhosa	Niger-Congo
17 000 000	Zhuang	Kra-Dai
16 000 000	Luganda	Niger-Congo
15 000 000	Ibibio	Niger-Congo
15 000 000	Kinyarwanda	Niger-Congo
15 000 000	Bambara	Niger-Congo
14 000 000	Shona	Niger-Congo
13 000 000	Chittagonian	Indo-European
13 000 000	Northern Sotho	Niger-Congo
12 000 000	Sotho	Niger-Congo
11 000 000	Tswana	Niger-Congo
11 000 000	Akan	Niger-Congo
11 000 000	Kirundi	Niger-Congo
???	Kikongo	Niger-Congo
???	Kituba	Niger-Congo