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| Language Family | Language Branch | Language Name | Speakers (native) | Countries Spoken |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indo-European | Celtic | Scots Gaelic | 60,000 | Scotland, Canada, United Kingdom |
| Indo-European | Celtic | Irish Gaelic | 80,000 | Ireland |
| Indo-European | Celtic | Manx Gaelic | 1,000 | Isle of Man |
| Indo-European | Celtic | Welsh | 866,600 | Wales, Argentina, United Kingdom |
| Indo-European | Celtic | Cornish | 700 | United Kingdom |
| Indo-European | Celtic | Breton | 210,000 | France |
| Indo-European | Germanic | English | 379,000,000 | United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States, Global |
| Indo-European | Germanic | Frisian | 470,000 | Netherlands |
| Indo-European | Germanic | Dutch | 23,100,000 | Netherlands, Suriname, Belgium |
| Indo-European | Germanic | Afrikaans | 7,200,000 | South Africa, Namibia |
| Indo-European | Germanic | German | 90,000,000 | Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein |
| Indo-European | Germanic | Letzeburgish | 600,000 | Luxembourg |
| Indo-European | Germanic | Scots | 1,541,693 | Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Indo-European | Germanic | Old Norse | 0 | Extinct |
| Indo-European | Germanic | Danish | 6,000,000 | Denmark, Greenland, Faroe Islands |
| Indo-European | Germanic | Norwegian | 5,320,000 | Norway |
| Indo-European | Germanic | Swedish | 7,900,000 | Sweden, Finland |
| Indo-European | Germanic | Icelandic | 314,000 | Iceland |
| Indo-European | Germanic | Faroese | 72,000 | Faroe Islands |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Russian | 150,000,000 | Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Tajikistan, |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Belarussian | 5,100,000 | Belarus |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Ukrainian | 35,000,000 | Ukraine |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Rusyn | 623,500 | Slovakia, Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Croatia |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Czech | 10,700,000 | Czech Republic |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Slovak | 5,200,000 | Slovakia, Hungary |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Polish | 45,000,00 | Poland |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Upper Sorbian | 13,000 | Germany |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Lower Sorbian | 6,900 | Germany |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Kashubian | 108,000 | Poland |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Old Church Slavonic | 0 | Eastern Europe |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Bulgarian | 9,000,000 | Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Macedonian | 2,000,00 | North Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Serbia |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Bosnian | 3,000,000 | Bosnia |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Croatian | 5,600,000 | Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Montenegrin | 232,600 | Montenegro |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Serbian | 12,000,000 | Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Serbocroat | 21,000,000 | Former Yugoslavia |
| Indo-European | Slavic | Slovenian | 2,500,000 | Slovenia, Italy |
| Indo-European | Romance | Aragonese | 12,000 | Spain |
| Indo-European | Romance | Aromanian | 250,000 | Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia |
| Indo-European | Romance | Asturian | 351,791 | Spain |
| Indo-European | Romance | Catalan | 4,100,000 | Spain, Andorra, France, Italy |
| Indo-European | Romance | Champenois | 1,000 | France, Belgium |
| Indo-European | Romance | Corsican | 150,000 | France |
| Indo-European | Romance | Dalmatian | 0 | Croatia |
| Indo-European | Romance | Emiliano-Romagnolo | 4,400,000 | Italy, San Marin |
| Indo-European | Romance | Fala | 10,500 | Spain |
| Indo-European | Romance | French | 76,800,000 | France, Monaco, Belgium, Switzerland, Francophone countries |
| Indo-European | Romance | Friulian | 420,000 | Italy |
| Indo-European | Romance | Galician | 2,400,000 | Spain |
| Indo-European | Romance | Gallo | 191,000 | France |
| Indo-European | Romance | Haitian Creole | 9,600,000 | Haiti |
| Indo-European | Romance | Italian | 67,000,000 | Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Switzerland, Slovenia |
| Indo-European | Romance | Jèrriais | 1,900 | Jersey |
| Indo-European | Romance | Ladin | 41,900 | Italy |
| Indo-European | Romance | Ladino | 122,000 | Israel, Turkey, Greece |
| Indo-European | Romance | Latin | 0 | Vatican City |
| Indo-European | Romance | Ligurian | 500,000 | Italy, Monaco, France |
| Indo-European | Romance | Moldovan | 1,000,000 | Moldova, Transnistria |
| Indo-European | Romance | Neapolitan | 5,700,000 | Italy |
| Indo-European | Romance | Occitan | 200,000 | France, Spain, Italy |
| Indo-European | Romance | Picard | 700,000 | France, Belgium |
| Indo-European | Romance | Piedmontese | 700,000 | Italy |
| Indo-European | Romance | Portugese | 250,000,000 | Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Principe, Brazil |
| Indo-European | Romance | Romanian | 26,000,000 | Romania, Moldova |
| Indo-European | Romance | Romansch | 44,354 | Switzerland |
| Indo-European | Romance | Sardinian | 500,000 | Italy |
| Indo-European | Romance | Sicilian | 4,700,000 | Italy |
| Indo-European | Romance | Spanish | 489,000,000 | Spain, Hispanic America, Equatorial Guinea |
| Indo-European | Romance | Valencian | 2,400,000 | Spain |
| Indo-European | Romance | Venetian | 3,900,000 | Italy |
| Indo-European | Baltic | Latvian | 1,750,000 | Latvia |
| Indo-European | Baltic | Lithuanian | 3,000,000 | Lithuanian |
| Indo-European | Albanian | Albanian | 7,000,000 | Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, Greece |
| Indo-European | Greek | Greek | 13,400,000 | Greece, Cyprus |
| Indo-European | Armenian | Armenian | 6,700,000 | Armenia |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Angika | 743,600 | India, Nepal |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Assamese | 14,810,000 | India |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Bengali | 230,000,000 | India, Bangladesh |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Bhojpuri | 51,000,000 | India |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Bishnupriya Manipuri | 120,000 | India, Bangladesh |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Dhivehi | 340,000 | Maldives |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Dogri | 1,600,000 | India |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Gujarati | 56,000,000 | India |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Hindi | 322,000,000 | India |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Konkani | 2,300,000 | India |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Magadhi | 20,700,000 | India |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Maithili | 33,900,000 | India, Nepal |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Marathi | 83,000,000 | India |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Nepali | 16,000,000 | Nepal, India |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Oriya | 35,000,000 | India |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Pali | 0 | India |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Punjabi | 125,000,000 | India, Pakistan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Romany | 3,500,000 | Europe |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Sanskrit | 0 | India |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Sindhi | 25,500,000 | India, Pakistan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Sinhala | 17,000,000 | Sri Lanka |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Urdu | 68,620,000 | India, Pakistan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Kalash | 5,000 | Pakistan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Kashmiri | 7,000,000 | India, Pakistan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Khowar | 290,000 | Pakistan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Palula | 10,000 | Pakistan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Pashayi | 400,000 | Afghanistan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Shina | 644,200 | Pakistan, India |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Balochi | 7,600,000 | Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Dari | 20,500.000 | Afghanistan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Farsi | 70,000,000 | Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Gileki | 2,400,000 | Iran |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Kurdish | 30,000,000 | Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Armenia, Azerbaijan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Mazandarani | 3,500,000 | Iran |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Ossetic | 597,450 | Russia, South Ossetia |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Pashto | 40,000,000 | Afghanistan, Pakistan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Tajik | 8,100,000 | Tajikistan, Uzbekistan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Talysh | 218,100 | Iran, Azerbaijan |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Tat | 28,000 | Azerbaijan, Russia |
| Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Wakhi | 20,000 | Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, Tajikistan |
| Uralic | Finno-Ugric | Finnish | 5,800,000 | Finland, Sweden |
| Uralic | Finno-Ugric | Estonian | 1,100,000 | Estonia |
| Uralic | Finno-Ugric | Sami | 30,000 | Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia |
| Uralic | Finno-Ugric | Udmurt | 324,000 | Russia |
| Uralic | Finno-Ugric | Erzya | 37,000 | Russia |
| Uralic | Finno-Ugric | Moksha | 430,000 | Russia |
| Uralic | Finno-Ugric | Mari | 510,000 | Russia |
| Uralic | Finno-Ugric | Komi | 160,000 | Russia |
| Uralic | Finno-Ugric | Karelian | 36,000 | Russia, Finland |
| Uralic | Finno-Ugric | Hungarian | 13,000,000 | Hungary |
| Uralic | Samoyedic | Nenets | 21,926 | Russia |
| Kartvelian | Georgian | Georgian | 3,700,000 | Georgia |
| Kartvelian | Zan | Megrelian | 35,000 | Georgia |
| Kartvelian | Zan | Laz | 22,000 | Georgia, Turkey |
| Kartvelian | Zan | Svan | 14,000 | Georgia |
| Turkic | Oghuz | Turkish | 75,700,000 | Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria |
| Turkic | Oghuz | Azerbaijani | 23,000,000 | Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey, Russia, Georgia |
| Turkic | Oghuz | Gagauz | 148,720 | Moldova, Ukraine |
| Turkic | Oghuz | Turkmen | 6,700,000 | Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Russia, Uzbekistan |
| Turkic | Oghuz | Afshar | 50,000 | Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan |
| Turkic | Oghuz | Qashqai | 949,000 | Iran |
| Turkic | Oghuz | Salar | 70,000 | China |
| Turkic | Oghuz | Crimean Tatar | 540,000 | Russia, Ukraine |
| Turkic | Kypchak | Karachay-Balkar | 310,000 | Russia |
| Turkic | Kypchak | Kumyk | 450,000 | Russia |
| Turkic | Kypchak | Tatar | 5,200,000 | Russia |
| Turkic | Kypchak | Bashkir | 1,4000,000 | Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan |
| Turkic | Kypchak | Kazakh | 22,000,000 | Kazakhstan, China, Russia, Uzbekistan |
| Turkic | Kypchak | Karakalpak | 583,410 | Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan |
| Turkic | Kypchak | Nogay | 87,000 | Russia |
| Turkic | Kypchak | Kyrgyz | 4,300,000 | Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan |
| Turkic | Kypchak | Altay | 55,720 | Russia |
| Turkic | Southeastern | Uzbek | 27,000,000 | Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan |
| Turkic | Southeastern | Uyghur | 10,000,000 | China |
| Turkic | Northeastern | Yakut | 450,000 | Russia |
| Turkic | Northeastern | Tuvan | 280,000 | Russia, Mongolia |
| Turkic | Northeastern | Khakas | 43,000 | Russia |
| Turkic | Northeastern | Shor | 2,800 | Russia |
| Turkic | Bolgar | Chuvash | 1,042,989 | Russia |
| Basque | Basque | Basque | 750,000 | Spain, France |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Akkadian | 0 | Iraq |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Mehri | 165,900 | Yemen, Oman, Kuwait |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Arabic | 310,000,000 | Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Tunisia, Somalia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Libya, Lebanon, Palestine, Oman, Mauritania, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Djibouti, Comoros |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Maltese | 520,000 | Malta |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Aramaic | 575,000 | Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Syriac | 0 | Iraq |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Hebrew | 5,000,000 | Israel |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Tigrinya | 9,000,000 | Eritrea, Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Tigre | 250,000 | Eritrea |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Ge'ez | 0 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Amharic | 22,000,000 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Silt'e | 940,000 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Zay | 4,900 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Soddo | 260,000 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Inor | 280,000 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Harari | 25,810 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Berber | Siwi | 20,000 | Egypt |
| Afro-Asiatic | Berber | Tashelhiyt | 7,200,000 | Morocco |
| Afro-Asiatic | Berber | Tamazight | 4,600,000 | Morocco |
| Afro-Asiatic | Berber | Tarafit | 6,000,000 | Morocco, Algeria |
| Afro-Asiatic | Berber | Chaouia | 2,130,000 | Algeria |
| Afro-Asiatic | Berber | Tumzabt | 150,000 | Algeria |
| Afro-Asiatic | Berber | Kabyle | 6,000,000 | Algeria |
| Afro-Asiatic | Berber | Tuareg | 1,000,000 | Algeria, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Libya |
| Afro-Asiatic | Chadic | Bade | 250,000 | Nigeria |
| Afro-Asiatic | Chadic | Bura-Pabir | 250,000 | Nigeria |
| Afro-Asiatic | Chadic | Goemai | 200,000 | Nigeria |
| Afro-Asiatic | Chadic | Hausa | 80,000,000 | Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Chad |
| Afro-Asiatic | Chadic | Hwana | 32,000 | Nigeria |
| Afro-Asiatic | Chadic | Kera | 50,000 | Chad, Cameroon |
| Afro-Asiatic | Chadic | Marba | 150,000 | Chad |
| Afro-Asiatic | Chadic | Marghi | 5,000,000 | Nigeria |
| Afro-Asiatic | Chadic | Mina | 11,000 | Cameroon |
| Afro-Asiatic | Chadic | Tera | 101,000 | Nigeria |
| Afro-Asiatic | Chadic | Zizilivakan | 6,000 | Cameroon, Nigeria |
| Afro-Asiatic | Chadic | Zulgo-Gemzek | 26,000 | Cameroon |
| Afro-Asiatic | Egyptian | Ancient Egyptian | 0 | Egypt |
| Afro-Asiatic | Egyptian | Demotic | 0 | Egypt |
| Afro-Asiatic | Egyptian | Coptic | 0 | Egypt |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Beja | 2,200,000 | Sudan, Eritrea, Egypt |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Awngi | 490,000 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Blin | 91,000 | Eritrea, Sudan |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Xamtanga | 210,000 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Af-Maay | 3,900,000 | Somalia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Afar | 1,973,800 | Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Hadiyya | 1,300,000 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Kembata | 890,0000 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Konso | 240,000 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Libido | 64,000 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Oromo | 34,000,000 | Ethiopia, Kenya |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Saho | 220,000 | Eritrea, Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Sidamo | 3,000,000 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Cushtic | Somaili | 16,000,000 | Somalia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Beja | Beja | 2,200,000 | Sudan, Eritrea, Egypt |
| Afro-Asiatic | Omotic | Aari | 240,000 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Omotic | Bench | 348,000 | Ethiopia |
| Afro-Asiatic | Omotic | Welayta | 1,600,000 | Ethiopia |
| Altaic | Mongolic | Mongolian | 5,200,000 | Mongolia |
| Altaic | Mongolic | Kalmyk | 80,500 | Russia |
| Altaic | Mongolic | Buryat | 330,000 | Russia, Mongolia, China |
| Altaic | Mongolic | Monguor | 150,000 | China |
| Altaic | Mongolic | Dongxiang | 200,000 | China |
| Altaic | Tungusic | Evenki | 26,580 | China, Russia |
| Altaic | Tungusic | Manchu | 20,000 | China |
| Altaic | Tungusic | Xibe | 30,000 | China |
| Altaic | Korean | Korean | 77,200,000 | South Korea, North Korea |
| Altaic | Japonic | Japanese | 128,000,000 | Japan |
| Altaic | Japonic | Amami | 12,000 | Japan |
| Altaic | Japonic | Okinawan | 1,000,000 | Japan |
| Altaic | Japonic | Yaeyama | 47,600 | Japan |
| Altaic | Ainu | Ainu | 10 | Japan |
| Dravidian | Southern | Badaga | 134,000 | India |
| Dravidian | Southern | Kannada | 43,000,000 | India |
| Dravidian | Southern | Kodava | 113,857 | India |
| Dravidian | Southern | Malayam | 45,000,000 | India |
| Dravidian | Southern | Tamil | 75,000,000 | India, Sri Lanka |
| Dravidian | Southern | Tulu | 1,850,000 | India |
| Dravidian | South Central | Gondi | 1,850,000 | India |
| Dravidian | South Central | Koya | 407,423 | India |
| Dravidian | South Central | Kui | 941,000 | India |
| Dravidian | South Central | Kuvi | 155,548 | India |
| Dravidian | South Central | Maria | 365,000 | India |
| Dravidian | South Central | Telugu | 82,000,000 | India |
| Dravidian | Central | Kolami | 128,451 | India |
| Dravidian | Northern | Brahui | 3,280,000 | Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan |
| Dravidian | Northern | Kurux | 2,280,000 | India |
| Austro-Asiatic | Mon-Khmer | Sedang | 98,000 | Vietnam, Laos |
| Austro-Asiatic | Mon-Khmer | Bru | 300,000 | Laos, Vietnam, Thailand |
| Austro-Asiatic | Mon-Khmer | Cambodian | 16,000,000 | Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam |
| Austro-Asiatic | Mon-Khmer | Muong | 1,100,000 | Vietnam |
| Austro-Asiatic | Mon-Khmer | Vietnamese | 90,000,000 | Vietnam, China |
| Austro-Asiatic | Mon-Khmer | Khasi | 1,037,964 | India, Bangladesh |
| Austro-Asiatic | Mon-Khmer | Khmu | 3,500,000 | Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, China |
| Austro-Asiatic | Mon-Khmer | Mon | 800,000 | Myanmar |
| Austro-Asiatic | Mon-Khmer | Car | 37,000 | India |
| Austro-Asiatic | Munda | Mundari | 1,661,656 | India, Bangladesh, Nepal |
| Austro-Asiatic | Munda | Ho | 1,421,418 | India |
| Austro-Asiatic | Munda | Santali | 7,600,000 | India, Bangladesh |
| Austro-Asiatic | Munda | Korku | 727,133 | India |
| Austro-Asiatic | Munda | Sora | 409,549 | India |
| Austro-Asiatic | Munda | Kharia | 297,614 | India |
| Austro-Asiatic | Munda | Juang | 30,378 | India |
| Tai-Kadai | Hlai | Hlai | 667,000 | China |
| Tai-Kadai | Lakkia-Kam-Sui | Sui | 300,000 | China, Vietnam |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Zhuang | 16,000,000 | China |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | E | 30,000 | China |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Nung | 968,800 | Vietnam |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Buyei | 2,700,000 | China |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Isan | 22,000,000 | Thailand |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Khamti | 13,000 | Burma, India |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Lao | 30,000,000 | Laos |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Lü | 550,000 | China, Laos, Thailand, Burma |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Northern Thai | 6,000,000 | Thailand |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Nyaw | 60,000 | Vietnam |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Pak Thai | 4,500,000 | Thailand |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Phuan | 300,000 | Laos, Thailand |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Shan | 3,300,000 | Burma, Thailand, China |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Tai Dam | 760,000 | Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, China |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Tai Nüa | 720,000 | China, Burma, Thailand, Laos |
| Tai-Kadai | Tai | Thai | 36,000,000 | Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, Cambodia |
| Sino-Tibetan | Chinese | Mandarin | 920,000,000 | China |
| Sino-Tibetan | Chinese | Wu | 80,000,000 | China |
| Sino-Tibetan | Chinese | Cantonese | 80,000,000 | China, Hong Kong, Macau |
| Sino-Tibetan | Chinese | Min | 30,000,000 | China |
| Sino-Tibetan | Chinese | Xiang | 38,000,000 | China |
| Sino-Tibetan | Chinese | Hakka | 80,000,000 | China |
| Sino-Tibetan | Chinese | Gan | 22,000,000 | China |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Mishing | 629,954 | India |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Bodo | 1,400,000 | India |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Garo | 1,145,323 | India, Bangladesh |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Naga | 2,000,000 | India, Burma |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Limbu | 380,000 | India, Nepal |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Nepal Bhasa | 860,000 | Nepal |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Magar | 840,000 | Nepal, India |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Tibetan | 1,200,000 | China, Nepal, India |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Lepcha | 66,500 | India, Nepal, Bhutan |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Qiang | 81,000 | China |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Kachin | 940,000 | Burma, China, India |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Lisu | 940,000 | China, Burma, India, Thailand |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Jingpho | 940,000 | Burma, China, India |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Yi | 2,000,000 | China |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Naxi | 350,000 | China |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Burmese | 33,000,000 | Burma |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Karen | 4,000,000 | Burma, Thailand |
| Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Bai | 1,300,000 | China |
| Hmong-Mien | Hmong | Hmong | 3,700,000 | China, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, Thailand |
| Hmong-Mien | Mien | Mien | 840,000 | China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand |
| Austronesian | Atayalic | Atayal | 86,000 | Taiwan |
| Austronesian | East Formosan | Amis | 200,000 | Taiwan |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Ivatan | 33,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Tao | 3,800 | Taiwan |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Ilokano | 9,100,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Ibanag | 500,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Pangasinan | 1,200,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Kapampangan | 2,000,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Botolan | 32,0000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Bolinao | 51,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Tina | 70,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Hanuno'o | 13,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Tagalog | 23,800,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Cebuano | 19,665,453 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Ilonggo | 9,300,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Bikol | 2,500,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Waray-Waray | 2,600,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Kinaray-a | 433,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Tausug | 1,100,000 | Philippines, Malaysia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Maguindanao | 1,100,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Maranao | 780,000 | Philippines |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Malagasy | 25,000,000 | Madagascar, Comoros |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Melanau | 110,000 | Malaysia, Brunei |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Bolaang Mongondow | 230,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Totoli | 25,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Buginese | 4,000,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Makassarese | 2,100,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Tukang Besi | 250,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Gayo | 100,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Mentawai | 58,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Batak | 5,900,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Malay | 77,000,000 | Malaysia, Indonesia, East Timor, Brunei, Singapore |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Indonesian | 43,000,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Minangkabau | 5,500,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Acehnese | 3,500,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Cham | 320,000 | Cambodia, Vietnam |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Iban | 790,000 | Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Banjar | 3,500,000 | Indonesia, Malaysia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Sundanese | 40,000,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Javanese | 82,000,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Madurese | 6,700,000 | Indonesia, Malaysia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Sasak | 2,700,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Balinese | 3,300,000 | Indonesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Palauan | 17,000 | Palau, Guam, Mariana Islands |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Chamorro | 58,000 | Mariana Islands |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Tetum | 390,000 | East Timor |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Gilbartese | 120,000 | Kiribati |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Nauruan | 6,000 | Nauru |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Hawaiian | 24,000 | USA |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Maori | 50,000 | New Zealand |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Samoan | 510,000 | Samoa |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Tahitian | 68,260 | French Polynesia |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Tongan | 187,000 | Tonga |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Tuvaluan | 12,000 | Tuvalu |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Fijian | 339,210 | Fiji |
| Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Rotuman | 7,500 | Fiji |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Abui | 17,000 | Indonesia |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Bunak | 76,000 | East Timor, Indonesia |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Ekari | 100,000 | Indonesia |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Enga | 230,000 | Papua New Guinea |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Fataluku | 37,000 | East Timor |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Gogodala | 22,000 | Papua New Guinea |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Golin | 51,000 | Papua New Guinea |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Huli | 150,000 | Papua New Guinea |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Kobon | 10,000 | Papua New Guinea |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Kuman | 120,000 | Papua New Guinea |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Lamma | 10,300 | Indonesia |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Makasai | 102,000 | East Timor |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Melpa | 130,000 | Papua New Guinea |
| Trans-New Guinea | Trans-New Guinea | Orokolo | 50,000 | Papua New Guinea |
| Khoe | Khoe | Kxoe | 8,000 | Namibia, Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Zambia |
| Khoe | Khoe | Nama | 200,000 | Namibia, Botswana, South Africa |
| Khoe | Khoe | Naro | 10,000 | Botswana, Namibia |
| Khoe | Khoe | Sandawe | 60,000 | Tanzania |
| Khoe | Khoe | Tsoa | 2,000 | Botswana, Zimbabwe |
| Niger Congo | Mande | Bambara | 4,100,000 | Mali |
| Niger Congo | Mande | Dan | 1,600,000 | Ivory Coast, Guinea, Liberia |
| Niger Congo | Mande | Dioula | 6,852,620 | Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali |
| Niger Congo | Mande | Mandinka | 1,300,000 | Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea |
| Niger Congo | Mande | Mende | 1,500,000 | Sierra Leone, Liberia |
| Niger Congo | Mande | Soninke | 2,100,000 | Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ghana |
| Niger Congo | Mande | Sorko | 230,000 | Mali, Nigeria |
| Niger Congo | Mande | Susu | 1,060,000 | Guinea, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau |
| Niger Congo | Mande | Vai | 120,000 | Liberia, Sierra Leone |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Fula | 20,000,000 | Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal, Niger, Mauritania, Gambia |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Wolof | 5,454,000 | Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Serer | 1,410,700 | Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Mankanya | 75,000 | Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, The Gambia |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Sherbro | 140,000 | Sierra Leone |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Kissi | 530,000 | Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Temne | 2,500,000 | Sierra Leone, Guinea |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Dogon | 600,000 | Mali |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Minyanka | 740,000 | Mali |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Sucite | 38,000 | Burkina Faso, Mali |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Supyire | 460,000 | Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Nafaanra | 61,000 | Ghana, Ivory Coast |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Kusaal | 440,000 | Ghana |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Koromfe | 200,000 | Burkina Faso, Mali |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Kabiye | 1,000,000 | Togo, Benin, Ghana |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Mumuye | 400,000 | Nigeria |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Bété | 900,000 | Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Ghana |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Dida | 200,000 | Ivory Coast |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Kuwaa | 13,000 | Liberia |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Bassa | 300,000 | Cameroon |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Grebo | 390,000 | Liberia |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Sapo | 36,000 | Liberia |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Wè | 320,000 | Ivory Coast |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Ga | 8,500,000 | Ghana |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Adangme | 800,000 | Ghana |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Adele | 37,000 | Ghana, Togo |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Siwu | 27,000 | Ghana |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Ewe | 5,000,000 | Ghana, Togo |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Gen | 330,000 | Togo, Benin |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Aja | 550,000 | Benin, Congo |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Fon | 2,200,000 | Benin, Nigeria, Togo |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Twi | 947,000 | Ghana |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Fante | 2,700,000 | Ghana |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Abron | 1,400,000 | Ghana |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Nzema | 412,000 | Ghana, Ivory Coast |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Anyin | 1,500,000 | Ivory Coast, Ghana |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Akan | 10,500,000 | Ghana |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Chichewa | 12,000,000 | Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Ganda | 8,500,000 | Uganda |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Gikuyu | 6,600,000 | Kenya |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Ekegusii | 2,200,000 | Kenya |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Haya | 1,300,000 | Tanzania |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Chaga | 832,420 | Tanzania |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Rwanda | 9,800,000 | Rwanda, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Kongo | 6,500,000 | Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Angola |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Kamba | 3,900,000 | Kenya, Tanzania |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Lingala | 20,000,000 | Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, South Sudan |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Luhyia | 15,000,000 | Kenya |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Soga | 3,100,000 | Uganda |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Mongo | 400,000 | Democratic Republic of Congo |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Kiga | 1,600,000 | Uganda, Rwanda |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Kirundi | 8,800,000 | Burundi |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Nyankole | 3,400,000 | Uganda |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Nyoro | 670,000 | Uganda |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Tooro | 490,000 | Uganda |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Swahili | 10,000,000 | Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Mozambique, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Comoros, Zambia, Malawi |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Luba | 6,300,000 | Democratic Republic of Congo |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Tumbuka | 1,546,000 | Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Yao | 3,000,000 | Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Gishu | 2,700,000 | Uganda |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Oshiwambo | 1,441,000 | Angola, Namibia |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Ndebele | 5,000,000 | Zimbabwe, South Africa |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Lozi | 725,000 | Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Shona | 8,300,000 | Zimbabwe, Mozambique |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Siswati | 2,300,000 | Eswatini, South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Phuthi | 20,000 | Lesotho, South Africa |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Sesotho | 5,600,000 | Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Swazi | 2,300,000 | Eswatini, South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Tsonga | 12,000,000 | South Africa, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Mozambique |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Setswana | 5,200,000 | Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Northern Sotho | 4,700,000 | South Africa |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Venda | 1,300,000 | South Africa, Zimbabwe |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Xhosa | 8,200,000 | South Africa |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Zulu | 12,000,000 | South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Kako | 120,000 | Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Ngumba | 26,000 | Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Fang | 1,000,000 | Equatorial Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, São Tomé and Príncipe |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Yoruba | 50,000,000 | Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana |
| Niger Congo | Atlantic Congo | Igbo | 27,000,00 | Nigeria |
| Ameridian | Ameridian | Innuit | 100,000 | USA, Canada, Greenland |
| Ameridian | Ameridian | Yucatec Maya | 792,113 | Mexico, Belize |
| Ameridian | Ameridian | Quechua | 6,000,000 | Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile |
| Ameridian | Ameridian | Aymara | 1,677,100 | Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina |
| Ameridian | Ameridian | Guarani | 4,850,000 | Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil |
| Ameridian | Ameridian | Nahuatl | 1,740,000 | Mexico |
| Pidgin | Pidgin | Tok Pisin | 120,000 | Papua New Guinea |
| Pidgin | Pidgin | Bislama | 10,000 | Vanuatu |
| Pidgin | Pidgin | Jamaican Patois | 3,200,000 | Jamaica |
| Pidgin | Pidgin | Mauritian Creole | 1,090,000 | Mauritius |
| Pidgin | Pidgin | Sranan Tongo | 130,000 | Suriname |
| Constructed | Constructed | Esperanto | 1000 | Global |
| Constructed | Constructed | Volapük | 10 | Global |
| Constructed | Constructed | Interlingua | 0 | Global |
| Constructed | Constructed | Klingon | 10 | Global |
| Constructed | Constructed | Ido | 0 | Global |
| Constructed | Constructed | Quenya | 0 | Global |
| Constructed | Constructed | Sindarin | 0 | Global |
| Constructed | Constructed | Dothraki | 0 | Global |