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Adam M. Costello
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Number of speakers
Number of web documents
Summary: top 14 (speakers and web documents)
Combination: native speakers times web documents
source: Ethnologue on Tue 21 Oct 1997
The data comes from the entries in the ethnologue itself, not from the Top 100 list, whose numbers differ from those in the entries.
(“1st” means native speakers; “1st or 2nd” means all speakers.)
language speakers (1st) (1st or 2nd) ---------- ----------------- ------------ (top 98:) Mandarin 885 million English 322 million 470 million Spanish 266 million 362 million Bengali 189 million 196 million Hindi 182 million 418 million Russian 170 million 288 million Portuguese 170 million 182 million Japanese 125 million German 98 million 121 million Wu 77 million Javanese 76 million Korean 75 million Telugu 73 million French 72 million 124 million Vietnamese 67 million Cantonese (Yue) 66 million Marathi 65 million Tamil 62 million 69 million Turkish 59 million Urdu 57 million Min Nan 49 million Gujarati 44 million Polish 44 million Egyptian 43 million Ukrainian 41 million Italian 40 million 63 million Hunanese (Xiang) 36 million Kannada 34 million 44 million Malayalam 34 million Hakka 34 million Oriya 31 million Western Panjabi 30 million Western Farsi 27 million Romanian 26 million Eastern Panjabi 26 million Bhojpuri 25 million Maithili 24 million Hausa 22 million 38 million Burmese 22 million 31 million Algerian 22 million Thai 21 million Gan 21 million Dutch 21 million Serbo-Croatian 21 million Amharic 20 million 23 million Awadhi 20 million Yoruba 20 million Moroccan 20 million Sindhi 20 million Saidi 19 million Malay 18 million Northern Uzbek 18 million Indonesian 17 million 140 million Igbo 17 million Sudanese 16 million Nepali 16 million Siraiki 15 million Northeastern Tai 15 million Hungarian 15 million Assamese 15 million Cebuano 15 million Levantine Arabic 15 million Tagalog 15 million South Azerbaijani 14 million Haryanvi 13 million Sinhala 13 million Czech 12 million Greek 12 million Marwari 12 million Deccan 11 million Min Bei 11 million Magahi 11 million Chattisgarhi 11 million Belorussian 10 million Northern Zhuang 10 million Eastern Pashto 10 million Najdi 10 million Lombard 9 million Zulu 9 million Bulgarian 9 million Swedish 9 million Rwanda 9 million Western Pashto 8 million Bundeli 8 million Ilocano 8 million Kazakh 8 million Somali 8 million Tatar 8 million Southern Yemeni 7 million Uyghur 7 million Cambodian (Khmer) 7 million Neapolitan-Calabrese 7 million Akan 7 million Eastern Farsi 7 million Kurmanji 7 million Shona 7 million North Azerbaijani 7 million Xhosa 7 million (scattered others:) Finnish 6 million Danish 5 million Norwegian 5 million Hebrew 5 million Lithuanian 4 million Latvian 1.6 million Estonian 1.1 million Icelandic 0.25 million
source: Alta Vista on Tue 21 Oct 1997
language web docs ----------- ---------- total 94,598,950 English 77,387,010 Japanese 6,210,355 German 2,469,185 French 1,949,583 Spanish 1,448,557 Italian 1,294,897 Swedish 1,086,624 Dutch 807,294 Portuguese 749,635 Chinese 551,511 Finnish 426,359 Norwegian 378,761 Russian 294,010 Czech 279,227 Danish 230,606 Polish 217,002 Korean 186,774 Hungarian 142,247 Greek 56,395 Estonian 54,127 Hebrew 48,866 Icelandic 39,804 Romanian 21,846 Latvian 13,681 Lithuanian 11,477
(Assume a world population of 5500 million.)
spoken top 14 web top 14 --------------- ---------------- 16.1% Mandarin 81.8% English 5.9% English 6.6% Japanese 4.8% Spanish 2.6% German 3.4% Bengali 2.1% French 3.3% Hindi 1.5% Spanish 3.1% Russian 1.4% Italian 3.1% Portuguese 1.1% Swedish 2.3% Japanese 0.9% Dutch 1.8% German 0.8% Portuguese 1.4% Wu 0.6% Chinese 1.4% Javanese 0.5% Finnish 1.4% Korean 0.4% Norwegian 1.3% Telugu 0.3% Russian 1.3% French 0.3% Czech
language speakers * docs ---------- ---------------------- total 27,405 trillion English 24,919 trillion 90.9% Japanese 776 trillion 2.8% Mandarin 488 trillion 1.8% Spanish 385 trillion 1.4% German 242 trillion 0.9% French 140 trillion 0.5% Portuguese 127 trillion 0.5% Italian 52 trillion 0.2% Russian 50 trillion 0.2% Wu 42 trillion 0.2% Cantonese (Yue) 36 trillion 0.1% Min Nan 27 trillion 0.1% Hunanese (Xiang) 20 trillion 0.07% Hakka 19 trillion 0.07% Dutch 17 trillion 0.06% Korean 14 trillion 0.05% Gan 12 trillion 0.04% Swedish 10 trillion 0.04% Polish 10 trillion 0.04% Min Bei 6 trillion 0.02% Finnish 3 trillion 0.01% Czech 3 trillion 0.01% Norwegian 2 trillion Hungarian 2 trillion Danish 1 trillion Greek 0.7 trillion Romanian 0.6 trillion Hebrew 0.2 trillion Estonian 0.1 trillion Lithuanian 0.05 trillion Latvian 0.02 trillion Icelandic 0.01 trillion
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