Principal Languages of the World

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Language	People Speaking (in Millions)
Afrikaans (South Africa)	10
Amharic (Ethiopia)	20
Arabic	200
Assamese (India, Bangladesh),	22
Azer (Azerbaijan)	15
Bengali (Bangladesh, India)	207
Burmese (Myanmar)	31
Byelorussian (Belarus)	10
Chinese	1,000
Cebuano (Bohol Sea, Philippines)	13
Czeh (Czech Republic)	12
Dutch-Flemish (Netherlands, Belgium)	21
English	400
French	100
Fula (Cameroon,, Nigeria)	13
German	117
Greek (Greece)	12
Gujarati (India)	46
Hakka or Kejia (China)	34
Haryanvi	13
Hausa (Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon)	38
Hebrew	15
Hindi	496
Hungarian or Magyar (Hungary)	14
Ibo or Igbo (Niger, Nigeria)	17
Italian (Italy)	63
Japanese	125
Javanese (Jawa, Indonesia)	64
Kannada (India)	47
Korean (Korea, China, Japan)	75
Kurdish (South-West of Caspian Sea)	11
Madureso (Madura, Indonesia)	10
Malagasy (Madagascar)	12
Malay (Indonesia)	159
Malayalam (India)	36
Mandarin (China)	975
Marathi (India)	72
Marwari	12
Min (China, Taiwan, Malaysia)	50
Nepali (Nepal, India, Bhutan)	16
Oriya (India)	32
Oromo (W. Ethiopia, N. Kenya)	10
Persian (Iran, Afghanistan)	35
Polish (Poland)	44
Portuguese	168
Punjabi (India,, Pakistan)	96
Pushtu (mainly Afghanistan, also Pakistan, Iran)	21
Romanian (Romania,, Moldova)	26
Russian	288
Serbo-Croatian (North-west Balkan Area)	20
Sindhi (India,, Pakistan)	19
Sinhalese (Sri Lanka)	13
Spanish	322
Sundanese (Indonesia)	26
Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania, Zaire, Uganda)	49
Tagalog (Philippines)	54
Tamil (India, Sri Lanka)	66
Telugu (India)	69
Thai (Thailand)	51
Turkish (Turkey)	60
Ukrainian (Ukraine, Russia, Poland)	47
Urdu (Pakistan, India)	102
Uzbek (Uzbekistan)	14
Vietnamese (Vietnam)	65
Wu (China)	77
Yoruba (Nigeria, Zou, Benin),	20
Zhuang (South China)	15