Wikipedias Comparisons / Also generated     = Tables  = Charts More Stats Languages Regions Participation Usage Content Tables Charts Code Name   Speakers in millions  (log scale) (?)   Editors per million  speakers (5+ edits) Prim.+Sec. Speakers M=millions k=thousands Editors (5+) per million speakers Views per hour Article count                   Σ All languages (269) AF AS EU NA SA OC CL W           en English AF AS EU NA OC 1500 M 27 8,348,574 3,072,373 simple Simple English AF AS EU NA OC 1500 M 0.1 9,181 58,273 zh Chinese AS 1300 M 1 106,251 274,402 hi Hindi AS 550 M 0.1 5,658 51,457 ar Arabic AF AS 530 M 1 57,832 106,225 es Spanish AS EU NA SA 500 M 9 1,055,799 544,574 ms Malay AS 300 M 0.2 8,070 54,291 pt Portuguese AF EU SA 290 M 6 381,284 520,543 ru Russian AS EU 278 M 14 486,730 453,608 id Indonesian AS 250 M 0.9 53,520 114,403 bn Bengali AS 230 M 0.1 3,129 20,541 fr French AF EU NA 200 M 24 736,962 870,725 de German EU 185 M 36 1,282,017 988,060 ja Japanese AS 132 M 32 1,421,470 633,305 fa Persian AS 107 M 4 20,825 86,092 pa Punjabi AS 104 M 0.0 169 1,487 tl Tagalog AS 90 M 0.3 5,381 23,691 mr Marathi AS 90 M 0.3 3,212 25,587 vi Vietnamese AS 80 M 3 38,825 104,893 jv Javanese AS 80 M 0.1 1,478 21,265 te Telugu AS 80 M 0.4 5,239 43,904 ko Korean AS 78 M 10 43,777 118,437 wuu Wu AS 77 M 0.0 594 3,166 arz Egyptian Arabic AS 76 M 0.2 860 4,028 th Thai AF 73 M 3 39,284 51,755 zh-yue Cantonese AS 71 M 0.4 2,986 12,070 tr Turkish AS EU 70 M 9 98,132 140,944 it Italian AF EU 70 M 42 475,121 628,383 ta Tamil AS 66 M 0.7 3,330 19,845 pnb Western Panjabi AS 60 M 0.1 227 3,129 ur Urdu AS 60 M 0.4 1,692 11,750 my Burmese AS 52 M 0.1 221 2,714 sw Swahili AF 50 M 0.2 2,116 14,431 zh-min-nan Min Nan AS 49 M 0.2 792 6,164 kn Kannada AS 47 M 0.4 1,131 7,395 gu Gujarati AS 46 M 0.3 654 10,515 uk Ukrainian EU 45 M 9 23,411 180,893 pl Polish EU 43 M 44 445,647 649,608 sd Sindhi AS 41 M 0.0 80 333 ha Hausa AF 39 M 0.0 72 150 ml Malayalam AS 37 M 2 3,776 11,448 gan Gan AS 35 M 0.1 579 4,587 hak Hakka AS 34 M 0.2 176 1,413 or Oriya AS 31 M 0.0 58 543 ne Nepali AS 30 M 0.2 196 2,858 ro Romanian EU 28 M 13 33,200 133,344 su Sundanese AS 27 M 0.2 1,039 14,511 az Azeri AS 27 M 2 2,639 28,162 nl Dutch EU 27 M 54 209,533 567,408 zu Zulu AF 26 M 0.0 86 183 ps Pashto AS 26 M 0.3 308 1,537 ku Kurdish AS 26 M 0.6 1,507 12,515 om Oromo AF 26 M 0.0 71 206 ln Lingala AF 25 M 0.1 243 1,174 am Amharic AF 25 M 0.2 519 3,418 yo Yoruba AF 25 M 0.2 472 2,362 uz Uzbek AS 24 M 0.3 962 7,367 sh Serbo-Croatian EU 23 M 1 3,048 25,859 ig Igbo AF 22 M 0.0 124 576 mg Malagasy AF 20 M 0.1 330 1,801 ceb Cebuano AS 20 M 0.3 1,581 40,599 si Sinhala AS 19 M 0.6 391 2,051 ak Akan AF 19 M 0.1 37 43 km Khmer AS 18 M 0.2 339 2,236 hu Hungarian EU 15 M 50 52,387 148,346 el Greek EU 15 M 12 18,153 46,518 tw Twi AF 15 M 0.1 33 49 za Zhuang AS 14 M 0.1 217 163 map-bms Banyumasan AS 14 M 0.1 332 3,047 so Somali AF 14 M 0.3 184 603 af Afrikaans AF 13 M 3 2,921 13,238 as Assamese AS 13 M 0.2 121 262 ff Fulfulde AF 13 M 0.0 44 48 cs Czech EU 12 M 46 73,582 141,162 ht Haitian NA 12 M 0.3 1,333 51,256 bg Bulgarian EU 12 M 21 22,939 82,916 bar Bavarian EU 12 M 2 809 2,841 rw Kinyarwanda AF 12 M 0.0 32 71 sr Serbian EU 12 M 16 12,711 99,000 kk Kazakh AS 12 M 0.8 1,239 5,665 qu Quechua SA 10 M 0.7 993 11,691 sv Swedish EU 10 M 100 104,104 334,759 nds Low Saxon EU 10 M 1 1,148 15,302 he Hebrew AS 10 M 66 46,819 98,934 nds-nl Dutch Low Saxon EU 10 M 0.8 471 4,183 ug Uyghur AS 10 M 0.2 250 2,256 lg Ganda AF 10 M 0.0 27 35 ilo Ilokano AS 10 M 0.1 274 2,311 als Alemannic EU 10 M 1 1,159 5,392 ny Chichewa AF 9 M 0.0 26 61 cdo Min Dong AS 9 M 0.2 86 225 ca Catalan EU 9 M 48 19,370 207,655 tk Turkmen AS 9 M 0.3 390 3,961 kab Kabyle AF 8 M 0.4 158 551 scn Sicilian EU 8 M 1 1,474 15,043 tt Tatar AS 8 M 1 1,274 5,139 xh Xhosa AF 8 M 0.0 49 104 nap Neapolitan EU 8 M 0.9 864 13,051 bo Tibetan AS 7 M 0.4 164 1,199 sk Slovak EU 7 M 23 19,102 110,542 kg Kongo AF 7 M 0.1 92 571 sn Shona AF 7 M 0.1 24 46 gn Guarani SA 7 M 0.3 236 1,243 ti Tigrinya AF 7 M 0.0 36 132 be-x-old Belarusian (Taraškievica) EU 6 M 5 2,622 22,043 be Belarusian EU 6 M 5 2,402 17,539 hr Croatian EU 6 M 32 20,665 74,876 fi Finnish EU 6 M 118 80,381 220,647 bm Bambara AF 6 M 0.2 96 282 sq Albanian EU 6 M 8 3,271 24,709 da Danish EU 6 M 57 28,733 117,568 tpi Tok Pisin AS 6 M 0.4 170 849 hy Armenian AS 6 M 3 1,235 5,277 ki Kikuyu AF 5 M 0.0 27 40 mn Mongolian AS 5 M 2 771 3,515 lo Laotian AS 5 M 0.4 209 523 ky Kirghiz AS 5 M 0.6 157 852 st Sesotho AF 5 M 0.0 55 74 no Norwegian EU 5 M 132 48,653 234,623 nn Nynorsk EU 5 M 10 4,895 52,037 ks Kashmiri AS 5 M 0.0 69 359 rn Kirundi AF 5 M 0.0 20 41 tn Setswana AF 4 M 0.0 34 92 tg Tajik AS 4 M 1 672 8,923 ka Georgian EU 4 M 14 6,538 34,330 ckb Sorani AS 4 M 3 219 1,156 bug Buginese AS 4 M 0.2 62 130 mzn Mazandarani AS 4 M 0.5 174 2,438 wo Wolof AF 4 M 0.8 236 1,018 gl Galician EU 4 M 21 4,837 52,250 ee Ewe AF 4 M 0.3 113 209 lt Lithuanian EU 4 M 42 17,045 96,647 glk Gilaki AS 3 M 0.3 205 5,919 ts Tsonga AF 3 M 0.3 82 171 yi Yiddish 3 M 3 1,163 12,462 war Waray-Waray AS 3 M 1 592 10,750 ace Acehnese AS 3 M 3 171 477 sg Sangro AF 3 M 0.0 65 21 lmo Lombard EU 3 M 5 696 6,918 ss Siswati AF 3 M 0.3 60 163 pam Kapampangan AS 3 M 1 556 7,223 mk Macedonian EU 3 M 22 6,378 35,211 bs Bosnian EU 3 M 16 6,474 28,064 bcl Central Bicolano AS 2 M 2 424 4,658 rmy Romani EU 2 M 0.0 131 476 sl Slovene EU 2 M 56 14,179 80,419 vec Venetian EU 2 M 4 811 8,385 arc Aramaic AS 2 M 2 216 1,026 ay Aymara SA 2 M 0.5 179 702 ii Yi AS 2 M 0.0 24 14 tum Tumbuka AF 2 M 0.5 18 32 pms Piedmontese EU 2 M 4 752 22,096 eml Emilian-Romagnol EU 2 M 0.5 152 766 diq Zazaki AS 2 M 3 239 2,839 ba Bashkir AS 2 M 2 234 493 oc Occitan EU 2 M 10 1,624 19,584 lij Ligurian EU 2 M 2 332 2,592 sc Sardinian EU 2 M 3 298 1,922 lv Latvian EU 2 M 34 4,566 24,028 li Limburgish EU 2 M 8 660 5,131 sco Scots EU 2 M 5 364 2,805 pag Pangasinan AS 2 M 0.7 145 3,199 nah Nahuatl NA 1 M 4 788 6,112 ce Chechen AS 1 M 2 150 394 cv Chuvash AS 1 M 5 1,175 10,667 et Estonian EU 1 M 84 8,656 67,389 eo Esperanto CL 1 M 104 13,609 120,743 vls West Flemish EU 1 M 9 539 3,770 eu Basque EU 1 M 58 7,610 46,111 roa-tara Tarantino EU 900 k 6 235 8,221 ve Venda AF 875 k 1 41 121 new Nepal Bhasa AS 800 k 2 1,748 58,655 tet Tetum AS 800 k 1 132 368 fur Friulian EU 794 k 5 445 2,779 cy Welsh EU 750 k 43 3,075 25,114 ng Ndonga AF 690 k 0.0 25 24 fy Frisian EU 650 k 17 1,543 13,559 cbk-zam Chavacano AS 607 k 3 226 843 dz Dzongkha AS 600 k 0.0 63 126 wa Walloon EU 600 k 7 953 11,307 udm Udmurt AS 550 k 0.0 174 482 fj Fijian OC 550 k 2 32 57 ga Irish EU 530 k 40 1,139 9,149 os Ossetic AS 520 k 13 881 4,555 bat-smg Samogitian EU 500 k 14 859 12,314 mdf Moksha EU 500 k 2 112 366 myv Erzya AS 500 k 6 212 1,374 ext Extremaduran EU 500 k 12 201 1,292 hif Fiji Hindi AS 460 k 33 302 1,946 crh Crimean Tatar AS EU 456 k 7 293 1,025 sah Sakha AS 456 k 24 683 5,141 bpy Bishnupriya Manipuri AS 450 k 4 1,866 23,411 kaa Karakalpak AS 410 k 2 113 398 bxr Buryat AS 400 k 2 43 137 lb Luxembourgish EU 390 k 62 2,521 27,981 sm Samoan OC 370 k 3 76 399 mt Maltese EU 370 k 16 570 2,404 pap Papiamentu SA 329 k 6 108 642 pnt Pontic EU 325 k 6 91 235 is Icelandic EU 320 k 144 3,494 26,540 roa-rup Aromanian EU 300 k 13 174 5,526 srn Sranan SA 300 k 0.0 102 726 dv Divehi AS 300 k 10 341 3,223 kv Komi AS 293 k 3 207 1,509 ast Asturian EU 275 k 51 1,121 12,484 co Corsican EU 250 k 16 399 5,656 br Breton EU 250 k 104 2,410 30,161 pdc Pennsylvania German NA 250 k 12 269 1,698 ksh Ripuarian EU 250 k 12 926 53,284 zea Zealandic EU 220 k 5 131 752 bi Bislama OC 200 k 10 79 146 nv Navajo NA 178 k 22 171 908 xal Kalmyk AS 174 k 17 97 188 mi Maori OC 157 k 13 298 6,508 ab Abkhazian AS 125 k 8 74 226 ty Tahitian AS 120 k 0.0 340 843 lbe Lak AS 120 k 0.0 45 38 cr Cree NA 117 k 9 60 149 frp Arpitan EU 113 k 35 442 2,086 lad Ladino AS 109 k 46 273 2,210 to Tongan OC 105 k 0.0 113 1,498 gd Scots Gaelic EU 70 k 114 590 7,652 fiu-vro Voro EU 70 k 29 449 3,980 fo Faroese EU 70 k 129 599 3,846 av Avar AS 60 k 0.0 83 381 ch Chamorro OC 60 k 0.0 188 118 szl Silesian EU 56 k 125 351 1,850 sa Sanskrit AS 50 k 60 279 3,894 csb Cassubian EU 50 k 100 374 2,318 kl Greenlandic NA 50 k 40 147 270 mh Marshallese OC 44 k 0.0 14 11 hsb Upper Sorbian EU   40 k 175 603 5,698 rm Romansh EU 35 k 143 268 3,194 iu Inuktitut NA 30 k 33 97 301 haw Hawai'ian NA 27 k 74 178 1,749 se Northern Sami EU   20 k 200 410 2,809 chr Cherokee NA 18 k 111 80 212 cho Choctaw NA 18 k 0.0 11 20 mwl Mirandese EU   15 k 400 221 801 dsb Lower Sorbian EU   14 k 286 404 699 an Aragonese EU   10 k 1500 1,650 17,442 na Nauruan OC   6 k 167 134 284 ik Inupiak NA 2 k 0.0 29 73 stq Saterland Frisian EU   2 k 2500 226 1,453 gv Manx EU   2 k 2353 590 2,928 chy Cheyenne NA 712 0.0 18 61 pih Norfolk OC   600 3333 82 231 kw Cornish EU   245 20408 475 1,805 vo Volapük CL   10 900000 4,179 118,780 ia Interlingua CL - - 788 4,920 ang Anglo-Saxon EU - - 483 1,824 nov Novial CL - - 352 2,563 zh-classical Classical Chinese AS - - 721 2,285 ie Interlingue CL - - 188 1,427 mo Moldavian EU - - 48 401 la Latin - - 3,327 32,385 bh Bihari AS - - 125 2,314 got Gothic EU - - 75 364 jbo Lojban CL - - 211 1,045 cu Old Church Slavonic EU - - 171 391 nrm Norman EU - - 404 5,409 io Ido CL - - 1,659 17,746 pi Pali AS - - 117 2,230

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Speakers: Number of speakers of a language is the estimated total of primary and secondary speakers, is in many cases a very rough estimation (based on the page on the English Wikipedia about that language)
Regions are parts of the world where the language is spoken in substantial amounts (compared to total number of speakers). Regions where a language gained presence only by a recent diaspora are generally not included.
Region codes: AF:Africa, AS:Asia, EU:Europe, NA:North America, OC:Oceania, SA:South America, W:World Wide, CL:Constructed Language

Wikipedias which contain 10 or more articles (263) are included here
Not included: aa:Afar, ho:Hiri Motu, hz:Herero, kj:Kuanyama, kr:Kanuri, mus:Muskogee

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Data processed up to Saturday October 31, 2009
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