السبت، 7 مارس 2009

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Rank,Countries2Population3
language(in millions)
1. Chinese, MandarinBrunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia,
Philippines, Singapore, S. Africa, Taiwan, Thailand
1120
2. EnglishAustralia, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada,
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Guyana, India, Ireland,
Israel, Lesotho, Liberia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New
Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra
Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, S. Africa, Suriname,
Swaziland, Tonga, U.K., U.S., Vanuatu, Zimbabwe, many Caribbean states,
Zambia.
480
3. SpanishAlgeria, Andorra, Argentina, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Chad,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Rep., Ecuador, El Salvador,
Eq. Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mali, Mexico,
Morocco, Nicaragua, Niger, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Togo, Tunisia,
United States, Uruguay, Venezuela.
332
4. ArabicEgypt, Sudan, ALgeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lybia, Saudi Arabia,
Syria, Jordan, Yemen, UAE, Oman, Iraq, Lebanon
235
5. BengaliBangladesh, India, Singapore189
6. HindiIndia, Nepal, Singapore, S. Africa, Uganda182
7. RussianBelarus, China, Estonia, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan,
Ukraine, U.S., Uzbekistan
180
8. PortugueseAngola, Brazil, Cape Verde, France, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique,
Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
170
9. JapaneseJapan, Singapore, Taiwan125
10. GermanAustria, Belgium, Bolivia, Czech Rep., Denmark, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Paraguay, Poland,
Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland
98
11. Chinese, WuChina77.2
12. JavaneseIndonesia, Malaysia, Singapore75.5
13. KoreanChina, Japan, N. Korea, S. Korea, Singapore, Thailand75
14. FrenchAlgeria, Andorra, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi,
Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of
the Congo, Djibouti, France, Gabon, Guinea, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Laos,
Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Monaco, Morocco, Niger,
Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Tunisia, Vanuatu,
Vietnam
72
15. TurkishBulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Turkey,
Uzbekistan
69
16. VietnameseChina, Vietnam67.7
17. TeluguIndia, Singapore66.4
18. Chinese, Yue(Cantonese)Brunei, China, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama,
Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
66
19. MarathiIndia64.8
20. TamilIndia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore, S. Africa, Sri Lanka63.1
21. ItalianCroatia, Eritrea, France, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia,
Switzerland
59
22. UrduAfghanistan, India, Mauritius, Pakistan, S. Africa,
Thailand
58
23. Chinese, Min NanBrunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,
Taiwan, Thailand
49
24. Chinese, JinyuChina45
25. GujaratiIndia, Kenya, Pakistan, Singapore, S. Africa, Tanzania,
Uganda, Zimbabwe
44
26. PolishCzech Rep., Germany, Israel, Poland, Romania, Slovakia44
27. UkrainianPoland, Slovakia, Ukraine41
28. PersianIran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Oman, Qatar, Tajikistan, U A
Emirates
37.3
29. Chinese, XiangChina36
30. MalayalamIndia, Singapore34
31. Chinese, HakkaBrunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Panama, Singapore,
Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand
34
32. KannadaIndia33.7
33. OriyaIndia31
34. Panjabi, WesternIndia, Pakistan30
35. SundaIndonesia27
35. Panjabi, EasternIndia, Kenya, Singapore26
36. RomanianHungary, Israel, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro,
Ukraine
26
37. BhojpuriIndia, Mauritius, Nepal25
38. Azerbaijani, SouthAfghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey24.4
40. MaithiliIndia, Nepal24.3
41. HausaBenin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan,
Togo
24.2
43. BurmeseBangladesh, Myanmar22
44. Serbo-Croatian4Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and
Montenegro, Slovenia
21
45. Chinese, GanChina20.6
46. AwadhiIndia, Nepal20.5
47. ThaiSingapore, Thailand, Malaysia20
48. DutchBelgium, France, Netherlands, Suriname20
49. YorubaBenin, Nigeria20
50. SindhiAfghanistan, India, Pakistan, Singapore19.7
1. Many of the languages listed are
technically dialects, not separate languages. They are listed separately
because they differ from each other enough to be mutually
unintelligible.
2. The countries listed under Spanish,
English, Portuguese, French, and Serbo-Croatian do not include those in
which less than 1% of the population speaks the language as a first
language.
3. The population figures refer to first
language speakers in all countries and are general estimates.
4. Serbo-Croatian is now known variously as
Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian, depending on the speaker's ethnic or
political affiliation.