List of languages

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This is a list of the 600 best-known languages, ranked by reach: how many Wikipedia languages and sister sites have a page about each one.

#	Name	Speakers
1	EnglishWest Germanic language	753,359,540
2	FrenchRomance language	208,157,220
3	SpanishRomance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula	485,000,000
4	RussianEast Slavic language	154,000,000
5	ArabicSemitic language and lingua franca of the Arab world	315,421,300
6	LatinIndo-European language of the Italic branch	0
7	PersianWestern Iranian language	45,000,000
8	HebrewNorthwest Semitic language	9,303,950
9	SwedishNorth Germanic language spoken in Sweden and Finland	9,244,250
10	HindiIndo-Aryan language spoken in India	341,000,000
11	CzechWest Slavic language	10,700,000
12	CatalanWestern Romance language	4,873,396
13	DanishNorth Germanic language spoken in Northern Europe	6,000,000
14	HungarianUgric language mainly spoken in Hungary and surrounding countries	12,600,000
15	NorwegianNorth Germanic language spoken in Norway	5,200,000
16	BulgarianEastern South Slavic language	9,000,000
17	BelarusianEast Slavic language	7,600,000
18	IndonesianOfficial language of Indonesia	198,996,550
19	LithuanianBaltic language spoken in Lithuania	4,000,000
20	SlovakWest Slavic language native to Slovakia	6,000,000
21	LatvianBaltic language, official in Latvia and the European Union	1,500,000
22	SerbianStandardized variety of Serbo-Croatian language used by Serbs	9,000,000
23	ThaiTai language	20,700,000
24	MalayAustronesian macrolanguage, basis for Malaysian Malay and Indonesian	77,000,000
25	Ancient GreekForms of Greek used from around the 9th century BCE to the 6th century CE
26	MacedonianSouth Slavic language mostly spoken in North Macedonia	2,000,000
27	Kurdish languageNorthwestern Iranian language	21,000,000
28	GalicianWestern Ibero-Romance language	2,400,000
29	PunjabiIndo-Aryan language spoken in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India	125,000,000
30	LuxembourgishGermanic language or language variety spoken in Luxembourg	391,200
31	MandarinMajor branch of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China	918,000,000
32	FaroeseInsular Nordic language spoken as a native language by the people of Faroe Islands	69,150
33	BashkirTurkic language spoken in Russia	1,200,000
34	JavaneseAustronesian language	68,300,000
35	AramaicSemitic language	445,000
36	SilesianWest Slavic ethnolect	457,900
37	KhmerAustroasiatic language of Cambodia	16,600,000
38	ZazakiIndo-European language spoken by Zaza people	1,640,000
39	GuaraniTupian language of Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia, distinct groups within the Guaraní subgroup	4,500,000
40	OdiaIndo-Aryan language	34,500,000
41	LaoKra–Dai language of Southeast Asia	5,225,552
42	CebuanoAustronesian language spoken in the Philippines by Cebuanos and other ethnic groups	15,900,000
43	DzongkhaSino-Tibetan language spoken in Bhutan	237,080
44	MontenegrinNormative variety of Serbo-Croatian in Montenegro	232,600
45	SundaneseLanguage spoken in Indonesia	32,400,000
46	IgboNiger–Congo language of the Igbo people, mainly spoken in Nigeria	27,000,000
47	TigrinyaSemitic language spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea	7,507,780
48	KarelianFinnic language	35,600
49	NynorskOne of two official written standards for the Norwegian language	4,320,000
50	Fiji HindiLanguage spoken by most Fijian citizens of Indian descent	380,000
51	NavajoAthabaskan language of Na-Dené stock spoken in the southwestern United States	169,369
52	PiedmonteseRomance language spoken mainly in Italy	2,000,000
53	Haitian CreoleLanguage spoken in Haiti	9,600,000
54	LeoneseSet of certain vernacular Romance language varieties spoken in León and Zamora (Spain)
55	TswanaBantu language of Botswana and South Africa	4,500,000
56	BokmålOne of two official written standards for the Norwegian language	4,000,000
57	PapiamentoCreole language spoken in the Dutch West Indies	321,300
58	LadinRhaeto-Romance language of northeast Italy	30,000
59	SwaziLanguage of the Swazi people	2,034,200
60	KarakalpakOne of the Turkic languages in Central Asia, the state language of Karakalpakstan	583,410
61	MeiteiTibeto-Burman language of India	1,470,000
62	Northern SamiMost widely spoken of all Sámi languages	25,700
63	AromanianEastern Romance language of the Southern Balkans	112,960
64	NauruanAustronesian language spoken in Nauru	9,300
65	Karachay-BalkarTurkic language	310,400
66	BavarianMajor group of Upper German varieties spoken in the southeast of the German language area Bavaria	14,100,000
67	OromoCushitic language	24,000,000
68	FijianAustronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken in Fiji	341,270
69	MariUralic language	470,000
70	SorbianLechitic language spoken by the Sorbs	60,000
71	MinangkabauMalayic language spoken predominantly by the Minangkabau ethnic group	5,530,000
72	VõroFinnic language or dialect spoken in South Estonia; part of the South Estonian [Võro-Seto] linguistic region	74,499
73	TsongaBantu language of the Tsonga people of southern Africa	13,000,000
74	AcehneseAceh-Chamic language spoken predominantly by the Acehnese (or Achinese) ethnic group	3,500,032
75	IlocanoAustronesian language spoken by the native Ilocano people of the Philippines	9,100,000
76	EtruscanAncient Mediterranean language	0
77	KalmykRegister of the Oirat language, natively spoken by the Kalmyk people of Kalmykia	431,800
78	AlemannicGroup of dialects of the Upper German branch of the Germanic language family	10,000,000
79	KhantyUralic family of languages spoken in Russia	9,230
80	PicardGallo-Romance language spoken in northern France and southern Belgium	700,000
81	WarayVisayan language primarily spoken in the islands of Samar and Eastern Leyte	3,100,000
82	Ge'ezAncient Semitic language of Ethiopia
83	PhoenicianAncient Semitic language of the Mediterranean
84	Modern GreekDialects and varieties of the Greek language spoken in the modern era	15,000,000
85	GilberteseLanguage from the Austronesian family	116,280
86	MazanderaniNorthwestern Iranian language spoken mainly in Iran's Mazandaran, Golestan, Gilan, Semnan, Tehran, Alborz and Qazvin provinces	3,270,000
87	AwadhiIndo-Aryan language spoken in Northern India	22,000,000
88	BugisSouth Sulawesi language predominantly spoken by the Bugis ethnic group	5,017,800
89	Hiri MotuAustronesian language of Papua New Guinea	180,000
90	Pennsylvania GermanVariety of West Central German	148,000
91	SangoNgbandi-based creole of the Central African Republic	4,600,000
92	BanjarAustronesian language spoken in Kalimantan, Indonesia	3,500,000
93	VoticLanguage spoken by the Votes of Ingria	62
94	Northern SothoBantu language	4,100,000
95	Southern NdebeleLanguage belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, one of the official languages of South Africa	640,000
96	Standard ChineseStandard form of the Chinese language	897,071,810
97	American Sign LanguageSign language used predominately in the United States	250,000
98	Yue ChinesePrimary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China	73,100,000
99	Old FrenchGallo-Romance dialect continuum spoken from the 9th century to the middle of the 14th century
100	SvanKartvelian language	15,000