Most Spoken Languages by Family - Updated 2019

Can you name all the languages that have more than 10 million native speakers? We'll help out by telling you what families they're in. Source: Ethnologue, 22nd edition, 2019.

Compared to the source used in my older version of this quiz, Ethnologue is narrower in what it considers a language.

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Family	Branch	Sub-branch	Language	Native speakers (millions)
Indo-European	Indo-Iranian	Indo-Aryan	Hindi	341
			Bengali	228
			Western Punjabi	92.7
			Marathi	83.1
			Urdu	68.6
			Gujarati	56.4
			Bhojpuri	52.2
			Odia	34.5
			Maithili	33.9
			Eastern Punjabi	32.6
			Sindhi	24.6
			Magahi	20.7
			Saraiki	20.0
			Chhattisgarhi	16.3
			Nepali	15.8
			Assamese	15.3
			Sinhalese	15.3
			Chittagonian	13.0
			Deccan	12.8
			Sylheti	10.3
		Iranian	Iranian Persian	52.8
			Northern Pashto	20.9
			Northern Kurdish	14.6
			Southern Pashto	10.9
	Italic	Romance	Spanish	480
			Portuguese	221
			French	77.2
			Italian	64.8
			Romanian	24.3
	Germanic	West Germanic	English	379
			German	76.1
			Dutch	23.1
			Bavarian	14.1
	Balto-Slavic	Slavic	Russian	154
			Polish	39.7
			Ukrainian	27.3
			Czech	10.7
	Hellenic		Greek	13.1
Sino-Tibetan	Chinese		Mandarin Chinese	918
			Wu Chinese	81.4
			Yue Chinese	73.1
			Min Nan Chinese	50.1
			Hakka Chinese	48.2
			Jinyu Chinese	46.9
			Xiang Chinese	37.3
			Gan Chinese	22.1
			Min Bei Chinese	11.0
			Min Dong Chinese	10.3
	Lolo-Burmese		Burmese	32.9
Afro-Asiatic	Semitic	Central Semitic	Egyptian Arabic	64.6
			Sudanese Arabic	31.9
			Algerian Arabic	29.4
			Moroccan Arabic	27.5
			North Levantine Arabic	24.6
			Saʽidi Arabic	22.4
			Mesopotamian Arabic	15.7
			Hejazi Arabic	14.5
			South Levantine Arabic	11.6
			Tunisian Arabic	11.6
			Sanaani Arabic	11.4
			Taʽizzi-Adeni Arabic	10.5
		South Semitic	Amharic	21.9
	Chadic		Hausa	43.9
	Cushitic		Somali	16.2
Dravidian	Southern Dravidian		Tamil	75.0
			Kannada	43.6
			Malayalam	37.1
	South-Central Dravidian		Telugu	82.0
Austronesian	Malayo-Polynesian		Javanese	68.3
		Malayic	Indonesian	43.4
		Malayic	Malay	16.1
		Central Philippine	Tagalog	23.6
		Central Philippine	Cebuano	15.9
			Sunda	32.4
Turkic	Southern Turkic		Turkish	79.4
	Southern Turkic		South Azerbaijani	13.8
	Eastern Turkic		Northern Uzbek	25.1
	Eastern Turkic		Uyghur	10.4
	Western Turkic		Kazakh	12.9
Japonic			Japanese	128
Niger–Congo	Volta–Congo	Defoid	Yoruba	37.8
		Bantu	Kinyarwanda	12.1
			Zulu	12.1
			Rundi	10.8
		Igboid	Igbo	27.0
	Senegambian		Nigerian Fulfulde	14.5
Austroasiatic	Vietic		Vietnamese	76.0
Austroasiatic			Khmer	16.6
Koreanic			Korean	77.3
Kra–Dai	Tai		Thai	20.7
Uralic	Ugric		Hungarian	12.6

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Feb 14, 2024

Fun quiz. You might want to check the type-ins. Tai isn't usually accepted for Thai; I got it when typing Taiwanese.

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