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# People Groups & Population by Primary Language

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Language Name	Language Family	Primary Speakers (PGs)	Primary Speakers (Population)	Countries with Speakers
Chinese, Mandarin	Sino-Tibetan	135	937,536,775	87
Spanish	Indo-European	349	489,354,030	49
English	Indo-European	441	362,984,070	86
Hindi	Indo-European	187	356,007,975	25
Bengali	Indo-European	140	291,975,700	19
Portuguese	Indo-European	146	225,572,320	33
Urdu	Indo-European	127	140,221,905	26
Russian	Indo-European	61	139,502,200	40
Telugu	Dravidian	213	124,730,475	11
Japanese	Japonic	22	121,977,750	18
Javanese	Austronesian	12	113,158,200	5
Marathi	Indo-European	107	110,084,950	5
Punjabi, Western	Indo-European	11	101,478,100	7
Chinese, Wu	Sino-Tibetan	4	92,604,100	4
Vietnamese	Austroasiatic	27	90,521,275	24
German, Standard	Indo-European	26	82,982,100	23
Korean	Koreanic	33	81,593,525	33
Arabic, Egyptian	Afro-Asiatic	24	80,946,300	21
Chinese, Yue	Sino-Tibetan	29	77,181,550	26
Tamil	Dravidian	122	73,587,385	22
French	Indo-European	74	72,083,475	34
Turkish	Turkic	44	71,927,300	36
Chinese, Jinyu	Sino-Tibetan	1	60,310,000	1
Italian	Indo-European	22	60,139,675	21
Malayalam	Dravidian	112	60,040,175	13
Hausa	Afro-Asiatic	29	59,425,475	19
Chinese, Min Nan	Southern Daly	14	56,543,950	10
Bhojpuri	Indo-European	39	56,229,325	6
Yoruba	Atlantic-Congo	12	56,215,400	11
Arabic, Levantine	Afro-Asiatic	76	54,522,200	33
Sunda	Austronesian	2	50,690,000	1
Gujarati	Indo-European	145	46,780,050	27
Arabic, Sudanese	Afro-Asiatic	96	45,432,400	16
Chinese, Xiang	Sino-Tibetan	4	44,702,000	1
Kannada	Dravidian	80	44,206,100	5
Polish	Indo-European	25	43,795,700	25
Chinese, Hakka	Sino-Tibetan	16	42,756,300	14
Tagalog	Austronesian	20	42,090,200	19
Chinese, Gan	Sino-Tibetan	1	41,280,000	1
Awadhi	Indo-European	40	40,411,700	2
Sindhi	Indo-European	13	39,921,900	10
Punjabi, Eastern	Indo-European	61	39,585,280	21
Ukrainian	Indo-European	23	37,606,100	23
Arabic, Algerian	Afro-Asiatic	12	37,140,500	11
Amharic	Afro-Asiatic	10	36,977,350	7
Igbo	Atlantic-Congo	6	35,490,700	6
Odia	Indo-European	136	35,465,700	4
Uzbek, Northern	Turkic	8	33,827,700	8
Magahi	Indo-European	29	33,800,000	1
Burmese	Sino-Tibetan	14	33,235,700	13

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