Can you guess the 10 largest languages by total number of speakers (native and second language) of each of the 6 inhabited continents? Antarctica excluded for obvious reasons.
Creoles and pidgins are excluded. Isolates are included.
Number of speakers include speakers outside the continent, ie languages are categorised only *by* continent of origin rather than *within*.
Keep in mind that the distinctions between languages and dialects are extremely fuzzy and ultimately arbitrary, as is the distinction between continents.
I don't remember specifically, but I think I mostly used the ethnologue 200 list for the quiz, and unilat.org placed the number of total speakers at 28 million. regardless, every source I've seen trying to track down the number still put romanian ahead of dutch every time