Wikipedias Comparisons / Also generated 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 (263) AF AS AU EU NA SA PO CL W           en English AF AS AU EU NA 1500 M 28 7,759,576 3,001,182 simple Simple English AF AS AU EU NA 1500 M 0.1 7,129 54,734 zh Chinese AS 1300 M 1 104,359 255,714 hi Hindi AS 550 M 0.1 5,773 34,614 ar Arabic AF AS 530 M 1.0 40,083 99,982 es Spanish AS EU NA SA 500 M 9 921,382 508,052 ms Malay AS 300 M 0.2 9,267 44,542 pt Portuguese AF EU SA 290 M 6 329,130 496,486 ru Russian AS EU 278 M 14 363,886 423,072 id Indonesian AS 250 M 0.7 40,933 108,309 bn Bengali AS 230 M 0.1 2,788 20,049 fr French AF EU NA 200 M 25 559,630 835,771 de German EU 185 M 37 1,123,863 951,442 ja Japanese AS 132 M 33 1,463,817 610,923 fa Persian AS 107 M 4 16,024 65,661 pa Punjabi AS 104 M 0.0 150 1,408 tl Tagalog AS 90 M 0.3 6,235 22,669 mr Marathi AS 90 M 0.2 2,751 23,651 vi Vietnamese AS 80 M 3 29,463 93,236 jv Javanese AS 80 M 0.1 1,331 25,622 te Telugu AS 80 M 0.3 2,504 43,556 ko Korean AS 78 M 9 38,110 107,064 wuu Wu AS 77 M 0.1 576 3,792 th Thai AF 73 M 4 42,783 48,637 zh-yue Cantonese AS 71 M 0.3 2,614 11,397 tr Turkish AS EU 70 M 10 78,913 135,584 it Italian AF EU 70 M 42 386,675 600,596 ta Tamil AS 66 M 0.5 2,603 18,951 ur Urdu AS 60 M 0.3 1,096 10,667 my Burmese AS 52 M 0.1 247 1,278 sw Swahili AF 50 M 0.2 1,836 12,555 zh-min-nan Min Nan AS 49 M 0.1 670 5,925 kn Kannada AS 47 M 0.2 832 6,812 gu Gujarati AS 46 M 0.2 521 7,454 uk Ukrainian EU 45 M 8 16,960 157,477 pl Polish EU 43 M 45 332,611 626,273 sd Sindhi AS 41 M 0.0 79 329 ha Hausa AF 39 M 0.0 54 131 ml Malayalam AS 37 M 2 2,409 10,631 gan Gan AS 35 M 0.1 554 4,448 hak Hakka AS 34 M 0.1 146 665 or Oriya AS 31 M 0.0 51 538 ne Nepali AS 30 M 0.1 173 2,746 ro Romanian EU 28 M 14 23,905 128,952 su Sundanese AS 27 M 0.1 885 15,045 az Azerbaijani AS 27 M 2 2,307 24,430 nl Dutch EU 27 M 56 162,957 550,361 zu Zulu AF 26 M 0.0 76 186 ps Pashto AS 26 M 0.2 261 1,363 ku Kurdish AS 26 M 0.7 1,274 12,805 om Oromo AF 26 M 0.0 58 207 ln Lingala AF 25 M 0.0 189 1,147 am Amharic AF 25 M 0.1 451 3,342 yo Yoruba AF 25 M 0.1 275 6,264 uz Uzbek AS 24 M 0.2 760 7,276 sh Serbo-Croatian EU 23 M 0.8 2,183 23,550 ig Igbo AF 22 M 0.0 103 570 mg Malagasy AF 20 M 0.1 224 1,518 ceb Cebuano AS 20 M 0.6 1,436 39,202 si Sinhala AS 19 M 0.6 313 1,847 ak Akan AF 19 M 0.0 30 42 km Khmer AS 18 M 0.3 299 2,213 hu Hungarian EU 15 M 53 38,273 135,208 el Greek EU 15 M 12 13,495 44,921 tw Twi AF 15 M 0.0 28 48 za Zhuang AS 14 M 0.1 185 152 map-bms Banyumasan AS 14 M 0.1 301 3,118 so Somali AF 14 M 0.4 195 585 af Afrikaans AF 13 M 3 3,159 12,866 as Assamese AS 13 M 0.2 90 249 ff Fulah AF 13 M 0.1 38 47 cs Czech EU 12 M 50 47,827 133,622 ht Haitian NA 12 M 0.2 1,195 51,242 bg Bulgarian EU 12 M 21 19,105 76,201 bar Bavarian EU 12 M 2 580 3,075 rw Kinyarwanda AF 12 M 0.0 28 68 sr Serbian EU 12 M 15 10,134 144,910 kk Kazakh AS 12 M 0.7 664 5,317 qu Quechua SA 10 M 0.7 905 10,667 sv Swedish EU 10 M 98 91,039 323,313 nds Low German EU 10 M 0.8 938 14,830 he Hebrew AS 10 M 68 41,355 96,006 nds-nl Dutch Low Saxon EU 10 M 0.6 380 3,871 ug Uighur AS 10 M 0.3 217 2,206 lg Ganda AF 10 M 0.0 27 33 ilo Iloko AS 10 M 0.1 256 2,309 als Alemannic EU 10 M 2 975 5,225 ny Nyanja AF 9 M 0.0 23 59 cdo Min Dong AS 9 M 0.1 76 221 ca Catalan EU 9 M 47 14,192 190,240 tk Turkmen AS 9 M 0.3 318 3,887 kab Kabyle AF 8 M 0.1 128 513 scn Sicilian EU 8 M 1 1,159 14,702 tt Tatar AS 8 M 0.9 556 4,522 xh Xhosa AF 8 M 0.0 42 104 nap Neapolitan EU 8 M 0.4 858 13,021 bo Tibetan AS 7 M 0.3 102 341 sk Slovak EU 7 M 23 12,281 109,171 kg Kongo AF 7 M 0.1 76 569 sn Shona AF 7 M 0.0 20 40 gn Guarani SA 7 M 0.1 219 1,247 ti Tigrinya AF 7 M 0.0 27 132 be-x-old Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa) EU 6 M 5 1,992 20,680 be Belarusian EU 6 M 5 1,877 16,627 hr Croatian EU 6 M 30 14,161 67,121 fi Finnish EU 6 M 124 72,626 211,632 bm Bambara AF 6 M 0.2 87 260 sq Albanian EU 6 M 7 2,241 23,841 da Danish EU 6 M 57 24,629 112,894 tpi Tok Pisin AS 6 M 0.0 145 843 hy Armenian AS 6 M 3 697 4,809 ki Kikuyu AF 5 M 0.0 20 36 mn Mongolian AS 5 M 2 461 3,180 lo Lao AS 5 M 0.6 171 510 ky Kirghiz AS 5 M 0.4 125 774 st Southern Sotho AF 5 M 0.2 64 71 no Norwegian EU 5 M 128 34,221 223,899 nn Norwegian Nynorsk EU 5 M 12 3,421 50,458 ks Kashmiri AS 5 M 0.0 54 349 rn Rundi AF 5 M 0.0 21 40 tn Tswana AF 4 M 0.0 29 92 tg Tajik AS 4 M 0.9 608 8,880 ka Georgian EU 4 M 14 3,776 32,983 bug Buginese AS 4 M 0.0 42 97 mzn Mazandarani AS 4 M 0.8 110 2,442 wo Wolof AF 4 M 0.8 183 967 gl Galician EU 4 M 24 3,730 50,422 ee Ewe AF 4 M 0.0 91 206 lt Lithuanian EU 4 M 44 11,626 89,837 glk Gilaki AS 3 M 0.9 169 5,928 ts Tsonga AF 3 M 0.3 60 168 yi Yiddish W 3 M 3 908 6,972 war Waray AS 3 M 2 602 10,459 sg Sango AF 3 M 0.0 61 40 lmo Lombard EU 3 M 5 475 6,328 ss Swati AF 3 M 0.0 54 156 pam Pampanga AS 3 M 1 490 7,023 mk Macedonian EU 3 M 32 4,873 33,563 bs Bosnian EU 3 M 14 5,074 27,376 bcl Central Bicolano AS 2 M 2 396 4,465 rmy Romani EU 2 M 0.0 120 474 sl Slovenian EU 2 M 82 9,601 78,393 vec Venetian EU 2 M 2 690 8,390 arc Aramaic AS 2 M 1 164 886 ay Aymara SA 2 M 0.5 136 699 ii Sichuan Yi AS 2 M 0.0 22 14 tum Tumbuka AF 2 M 0.0 18 30 pms Piedmontese EU 2 M 3 599 21,631 eml Emilian-Romagnol EU 2 M 1 133 764 diq Zazaki AS 2 M 2 231 2,804 ba Bashkir AS 2 M 1 186 453 oc Occitan EU 2 M 9 1,421 19,061 lij Ligurian EU 2 M 0.5 267 2,563 sc Sardinian EU 2 M 4 274 1,668 lv Latvian EU 2 M 42 3,112 22,745 li Limburgish EU 2 M 6 505 4,882 sco Scots EU 2 M 4 324 2,681 pag Pangasinan AS 2 M 0.7 115 3,185 nah Nahuatl NA 1 M 3 650 6,156 ce Chechen AS 1 M 0.8 113 386 cv Chuvash AS 1 M 6 1,045 10,606 et Estonian EU 1 M 89 5,790 64,327 eo Esperanto CL 1 M 105 11,760 116,494 vls West Flemish EU 1 M 8 449 3,655 eu Basque EU 1 M 58 6,801 40,627 roa-tara Tarantino EU 900 k 2 157 8,016 ve Venda AF 875 k 0.0 31 87 new Newari AS 800 k 1 1,775 56,581 tet Tetum AS 800 k 1 100 359 fur Friulian EU 794 k 4 328 2,773 cy Welsh EU 750 k 35 2,603 23,947 ng Ndonga AF 690 k 0.0 19 26 fy Western Frisian EU 650 k 22 1,141 12,553 cbk-zam Chavacano AS 607 k 2 189 792 dz Dzongkha AS 600 k 0.0 50 124 wa Walloon EU 600 k 5 716 11,185 udm Udmurt AS 550 k 2 136 480 fj Fijian PO 550 k 0.0 32 55 ga Irish EU 530 k 45 999 8,664 os Ossetic AS 520 k 13 617 3,755 bat-smg Samogitian EU 500 k 12 738 11,392 mdf Moksha EU 500 k 2 109 365 myv Erzya AS 500 k 8 173 1,374 ext Extremaduran EU 500 k 12 170 1,180 hif Fiji Hindi AS 460 k 20 226 1,715 crh Crimean Turkish AS EU 456 k 7 280 861 sah Yakut AS 456 k 13 461 4,544 bpy Bishnupriya Manipuri AS 450 k 4 1,773 23,406 kaa Kara-Kalpak AS 410 k 0.0 86 343 bxr Buryat AS 400 k 0.0 36 95 lb Luxembourgish EU 390 k 69 1,707 27,437 sm Samoan PO 370 k 3 70 396 mt Maltese EU 370 k 14 451 2,370 pap Papiamento SA 329 k 6 84 606 pnt Pontic EU 325 k 6 82 211 is Icelandic EU 320 k 109 2,772 25,466 roa-rup Aromanian EU 300 k 10 134 5,227 srn Sranan Tongo SA 300 k 0.0 124 717 dv Divehi AS 300 k 10 341 3,067 kv Komi AS 293 k 7 166 1,533 ast Asturian EU 275 k 40 1,041 12,288 co Corsican EU 250 k 16 370 5,682 br Breton EU 250 k 80 2,143 27,937 pdc Pennsylvania German NA 250 k 16 222 1,740 ksh Ripuarian EU 250 k 8 733 20,885 bi Bislama PO 200 k 0.0 64 128 xal Kalmyk AS 174 k 17 64 110 mi Maori PO 157 k 6 231 6,493 ab Abkhazian AS 125 k 8 61 192 ty Tahitian AS 120 k 0.0 312 843 lbe Lak AS 120 k 0.0 43 38 cr Cree NA 117 k 0.0 48 144 frp Arpitan EU 113 k 9 444 2,056 lad Ladino AS 109 k 28 204 2,065 to Tonga PO 105 k 10 126 1,497 gd Scottish Gaelic EU 70 k 100 554 7,175 fiu-vro Voro EU 70 k 43 287 3,575 fo Faroese EU 70 k 86 504 3,731 av Avaric AS 60 k 0.0 87 420 ch Chamorro PO 60 k 0.0 153 117 szl Silesian EU 56 k 143 294 1,936 sa Sanskrit AS 50 k 60 311 3,881 csb Kashubian EU 50 k 80 307 2,185 kl Kalaallisut NA 50 k 40 89 216 mh Marshallese PO 44 k 0.0 29 11 hsb Upper Sorbian EU   40 k 200 480 5,550 rm Rhaeto-Romance EU 35 k 114 230 3,174 iu Inuktitut NA 30 k 33 80 304 haw Hawaiian NA 27 k 74 149 1,714 se Northern Sami EU   20 k 200 339 2,772 chr Cherokee NA 18 k 0.0 73 209 cho Choctaw NA 18 k 0.0 11 20 dsb Lower Sorbian EU   14 k 429 210 645 an Aragonese EU   10 k 1000 1,637 16,634 na Nauru PO 6 k 0.0 120 282 ik Inupiaq CL 2 k 0.0 27 72 stq Saterland Frisian EU   2 k 2500 205 1,426 gv Manx EU   2 k 2353 488 2,878 chy Cheyenne NA 712 0.0 20 60 pih Norfolk PO   600 1667 65 198 kw Cornish EU   245 16327 277 1,784 vo Volapük CL   10 800000 4,335 118,778 zea Zealandic EU - - 117 746 ia Interlingua CL - - 1,014 4,833 ang Old English EU - - 464 1,754 nov Novial CL - - 320 2,560 zh-classical Classical Chinese AS - - 768 2,251 ie Interlingue CL - - 126 1,331 mo Moldavian EU - - 42 401 la Latin W - - 2,992 30,068 bh Bihari AS - - 142 2,313 got Gothic EU - - 64 360 jbo Lojban CL - - 186 1,007 cu Church Slavic EU - - 144 390 nrm Norman EU - - 353 5,393 io Ido CL - - 1,448 17,530 pi Pali AS - - 110 2,229

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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, AU:Australia, EU:Europe, NA:North America, PO:Polynesia, SA:South America, W:World Wide, CL:Constructed Language

Wikipedias which contain 10 or more articles (257) are included here
Not included: aa:Afar, ho:Hiri Motu, hz:Herero, kj:Kuanyama, kr:Kanuri, mus:Creek

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