Top 20 Languages that use Roman (English) Script

Of all of the languages that currently use the alphabet you are reading now as standard, which are spoken natively by most persons?
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language
405 mil
Spanish
360 mil
English
215 mil
Portuguese
89 mil
German
82 mil
Javanese
77 mil
Indonesian/Malay
76 mil
Vietnamese
74 mil
French
63 mil
Turkish
60 mil
Italian
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language
40 mil
Polish
38 mil
Sundanese
34 mil
Hausa
28 mil
Tagalog
28 mil
Yoruba
26 mil
Uzbek
24 mil
Romanian
24 mil
Fula
24 mil
Igbo
23 mil
Azerbaijani
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Level 76
Jan 3, 2016
Interesting! How far is Swedish from making the list? I think many people speak Swedish in Finland but I don't know if that's considered "native"
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Level 76
Jan 5, 2016
About 7 places off this list. 9 million.
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Level 67
Jan 4, 2016
There are 16 million Zhuang speakers in China and Standard Zhuang is written in Latin script
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Level 67
Jan 4, 2016
How about Javanese (82 m), Hausa (34 m), Yoruba (28 m), Uzbek (26 m), Fula (24 m), Igbo (24 m), and Cebuano (21 m)? These are all most commonly written today a latin-derived script.
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Level 76
Jan 5, 2016
So they are. I wouldn't have guessed those in a million years. Let's see if any other quizzers do.