|
Native Speakers
|
Language Family
|
Language
|
|
106,000,000
|
Slavic
|
Russian
|
|
97,000,000
|
Germanic
|
German
|
|
71,500,000
|
Romance
|
French
|
|
65,000,000
|
Romance
|
Italian
|
|
63,000,000
|
Germanic
|
English
|
|
38,500,000
|
Slavic
|
Polish
|
|
38,000,000
|
Romance
|
Spanish (Castilian)
|
|
32,600,000
|
Slavic
|
Ukrainian
|
|
24,000,000
|
Romance
|
Romanian
|
|
22,000,000
|
Germanic
|
Dutch
|
|
14,000,000
|
Germanic
|
Austro-Bavarian
|
|
13,000,000
|
Uralic
|
Hungarian
|
|
12,000,000
|
Turkic
|
Turkish
|
|
11,100,000
|
Germanic
|
Swedish
|
|
11,000,000
|
Hellenic
|
Greek
|
|
10,600,000
|
Slavic
|
Czech
|
|
10,000,000
|
Romance
|
Portuguese
|
|
9,000,000
|
Slavic
|
Serbian
|
|
7,800,000
|
Slavic
|
Bulgarian
|
|
5,877,100
|
Albanian
|
Albanian
|
|
5,700,000
|
Romance
|
Neapolitan
|
|
5,600,000
|
Slavic
|
Croatian
|
|
5,500,000
|
Germanic
|
Danish
|
|
5,400,000
|
Uralic
|
Finnish
|
|
5,200,000
|
Germanic
|
Norwegian
|
|
5,200,000
|
Slavic
|
Slovak
|
|
5,000,000
|
Germanic
|
Swiss German
|
|
4,900,000
|
Germanic
|
Mainfränkisch
|
|
4,700,000
|
Romance
|
Sicilian
|
|
4,300,000
|
Turkic
|
Tatar
|
|
4,000,000
|
Romance
|
Catalan
|
|
3,800,000
|
Romance
|
Venetian
|
|
3,700,000
|
Kartvelian
|
Georgian
|
|
3,600,000
|
Romance
|
Lombard
|
|
3,300,000
|
Slavic
|
Belarussian
|
|
3,000,000
|
Baltic
|
Lithuanian
|
|
2,500,000
|
Slavic
|
Bosnian
|
|
2,400,000
|
Romance
|
Galician
|
|
2,100,000
|
Slavic
|
Slovene
|
|
2,000,000
|
Germanic
|
Upper Saxon
|
|
1,750,000
|
Baltic
|
Latvian
|
|
1,600,000
|
Romance
|
Piedmontese
|
|
1,500,000
|
Indo-Iranian
|
Romani
|
|
1,400,000
|
Nakh
|
Chechen
|
|
1,400,000
|
Slavic
|
Macedonian
|
|
1,350,000
|
Romance
|
Sardinian
|
|
1,300,000
|
Germanic
|
Limburgish
|
|
1,221,000
|
Turkic
|
Bashkir
|
|
1,165,400
|
Uralic
|
Estonian
|
|
1,100,000
|
Turkic
|
Chuvash
|
|
1,000,000
|
Turkic
|
Kazakh
|
|
1,000,000
|
Germanic
|
Low German (Low Saxon)
|
|
1,000,000
|
Germanic
|
Palatinate German
|
|
900,000
|
Germanic
|
Ripuarian (Platt)
|
|
820,000
|
Germanic
|
Swabian German
|
|
|
Native Speakers
|
Language Family
|
Language
|
|
750,000
|
Avar-Andic
|
Avar
|
|
750,000
|
Basque
|
Basque
|
|
600,000
|
Romance
|
Friulan
|
|
600,000
|
Romance
|
Walloon
|
|
600,000
|
Germanic
|
Yiddish
|
|
562,000
|
Celtic
|
Welsh
|
|
530,000
|
Circassian
|
Kabardian
|
|
522,000
|
Slavic
|
Silesian
|
|
520,000
|
Semitic
|
Maltese
|
|
500,000
|
Turkic
|
Azeri
|
|
500,000
|
Romance
|
Ligurian
|
|
500,000
|
Uralic
|
Mari
|
|
500,000
|
Romance
|
Occitan
|
|
480,000
|
Turkic
|
Crimean Tatar
|
|
470,000
|
Germanic
|
Frisian
|
|
450,000
|
Indo-Iranian
|
Ossetian
|
|
351,791
|
Romance
|
Asturian
|
|
340,000
|
Uralic
|
Udmurt
|
|
336,000
|
Germanic
|
Luxembourgish
|
|
330,000
|
Germanic
|
Icelandic
|
|
320,000
|
Romance
|
Ladino
|
|
300,000
|
Nakh
|
Ingush
|
|
300,000
|
Turkic
|
Karachay-Balkar
|
|
240,700
|
Slavic
|
Montenegrin
|
|
240,000
|
Celtic
|
Irish Gaelic
|
|
220,000
|
Uralic
|
Komi
|
|
206,000
|
Celtic
|
Breton
|
|
200,000
|
Romance
|
Extremaduran
|
|
200,000
|
Romance
|
Picard
|
|
140,000
|
Romance
|
Franco-Provençal
|
|
140,000
|
Turkic
|
Gagauz
|
|
126,000
|
Lezgic
|
Tabasaran
|
|
120,000
|
Uralic
|
Erzian
|
|
117,500
|
Circassian
|
Adyghe
|
|
114,000
|
Romance
|
Aromanian
|
|
110,000
|
Germanic
|
Scots
|
|
87,000
|
Uralic
|
Võro
|
|
80,500
|
Mongolic
|
Kalmyk
|
|
66,150
|
Germanic
|
Faroese
|
|
57,000
|
Celtic
|
Scottish Gaelic
|
|
50,000
|
Slavic
|
Kashubian
|
|
50,000
|
Romance
|
Norman
|
|
40,000
|
Romance
|
Romansh
|
|
36,000
|
Uralic
|
Karelian
|
|
30,000
|
Romance
|
Corsican
|
|
30,000
|
Iranian
|
Tat
|
|
25,000
|
Romance
|
Aragonese
|
|
23,000
|
Uralic
|
Sami
|
|
20,000
|
Hellenic
|
Grecanico
|
|
20,000
|
Slavic
|
Wendish
|
|
20,000
|
Germanic
|
Walser German
|
|
16,000
|
Germanic
|
Yenish
|
|
15,000
|
Romance
|
Mirandese
|
|
11,000
|
Germanic
|
Silesian German
|
|
4,000
|
Uralic
|
Nenets
|
|
- Sorbian (Wendish) is a Slavic language, not Germanic.
- 5 minutes seems a little too little for 110 languages.
I'm always surprised when I see Silesian but not Rusyn but I understand Rusyn was not in the source here.
Both Rhaeto-Romance and Friulan are on the list but if you go to the wikipedia page of Rhaeto-Romance, it says it's a subfamily of Romance languages that includes Friulan.
When I type in Romansh, which is one of the four national languages of Switzerland, I don't get anything, which I think is wrong. It should either be its own language or at least count for Rhaeto-Romance.
It's really another dialect compared to Dutch.
The traditions of Flemish people are considered a separate culture (not a separate language) because they live in a state which is separated from the Netherlands. They have their own cities, writers, artists, customs, recipes, but not a separate language.
That's as much as I know (not being a Dutch speaker, though, so I might be wrong).
May we have "Ladin" as a type-in for "Ladino"? It's what the always-correct Wikipedia calls it.
Using the minimum population of 4,000 on the quiz, these languages are missing:
- Lezgian (630,000 speakers)
- Dargwa (490,000 speakers)
- Lak (152,000 speakers)
- Nogai (87,000 speakers)
- Rutul (36,000 speakers)
- Aghul (29,000 speakers)
- Kaitag (30,000 speakers)
- Tsakhur (22,000 speakers)
- Tsez (13,000 speakers)
- Bezhta (6,800 speakers)
- Andi (5,800 speakers)
- Kubachi (7,000 speakers)
There are also some Romani languages/dialects
- Sinte Romani (195,200 speakers)
- Romano-Serbian (170,000 speakers)
- Calo (60,000 speakers)
There are also some languages in some other places of Europe
- Samogotian (less than 500,000 speakers)
- Latgalian (200,000 speakers)
- Sassarese (100,000 speakers)
- Gallurese (100,000 speakers)
- Meankieli (70,000 speakers)
- Permyak (63,000 speakers)
- Judaeo-Spanish (51,000 speakers)
- Fala (10,500 speakers)
Also some dutch dialects I wont list.