Can you name the most spoken languages of different language groups (latinized native name variants accepted)? by PurppuraSuihku

Can you name the most spoken languages of different language groups (latinized native name variants accepted)?

created by PurppuraSuihku

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language family and/or group	language	estimated # of native speakers
Romance #1		329 million
Romance #2		200 million
Romance #3		77 million
Romance #4		70 million
Romance #5		24 million
Celtic #1		750,000
Celtic #2		355,000
Celtic #3		59,000
Germanic #1		309–400 million
Germanic #2		105 million
Germanic #3		22 million
Germanic #4		10 million
Germanic #5		6.5 million
Balto-Slavic #1		164 million
Balto-Slavic #2		42-47 million
Balto-Slavic #3		40 million
Balto-Slavic #4		over 12 million
Balto-Slavic #5		12 million
Indo-Aryan #1		570 million
Indo-Aryan #2		230 million
Indo-Aryan #3		88 million
Indo-Aryan #4		70 million
Indo-Aryan #5		46 million

language family and/or group	language	estimated # of native speakers
Indo-Iranian #1		80-134 million
Indo-Iranian #2		26 million
Indo-Iranian #3		26 million
Afro-Asiatic #1		280 million
Afro-Asiatic #2		more than 25 million
Afro-Asiatic #3		24 million
Afro-Asiatic #4		15-25 million
Afro-Asiatic #5		10-16 million
Native American #1		10.4 million
Native American #2		4.65 million
Native American #3		2.3 million
Austronesian #1		80 million
Austronesian #2		49 million
Austronesian #3		30-45 million
Austronesian #4		26 million
Austronesian #5		20 million
Dravidian #1		74 million
Dravidian #2		66 million
Dravidian #3		38 million
Sino-Tibetan #1		885 million
Sino-Tibetan #2		77.2 million
Sino-Tibetan #3		55.5 million
Altaic #1		70 million

language family and/or group	language	estimated # of native speakers
Altaic #2		20-35 million
Altaic #3		23.5 million
Altaic #4		12 million
Altaic #5		8-10 million
Austro-Asiatic #1		70-73 million
Austro-Asiatic #2		15.7-21.6 million
Austro-Asiatic #3		6 million
Uralic #1		15 million
Uralic #2		6 million
Uralic #3		1.25 million
Niger-Congo #1		more than 25 million
Niger-Congo #2		18 million
Niger-Congo #3		10-16 million
Niger-Congo #4		10 million
Niger-Congo #5		9.3 million
Tai-Kadai #1		65-75 million
Tai-Kadai #2		14 million
Tai-Kadai #3		5.23 million
Nilo-Saharan #1		4 million
Nilo-Saharan #2		3 million
Nilo-Saharan #3		2.9 million
	2.9 million
	2.9 million
	2.9 million
	2.9 million
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	2.9 million
	2.9 million

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Most spoken languages of language groups Quiz

by PurppuraSuihku

Created Nov 15, 2009 in Language
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	PurppuraSuihku:	Nov 15th, 2009 at 13:07 GMT	2 points
	It's my first quiz so I appreciate any comments, particularly concerning the time limit! Thanks and try to enjoy.

	gelnika:	Nov 15th, 2009 at 13:29 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz - I guess the reason that Japanese and Korean are missing is that they are language isolates, but it'd be good to have them there, maybe as bonuses? or as a separate category of isolates? Was puzzled by the absence of Swahili, but I guess it's the first language for only a small proportion of those who speak it.

	PurppuraSuihku:	Nov 15th, 2009 at 13:34 GMT	2 points
	Yeah, you're right about those 2! And as I'm new to this place, I'm only just now looking how to actually conjure up the bonus questions... and yeah, you're right about Swahili too.

	PurppuraSuihku:	Nov 15th, 2009 at 14:49 GMT	1 point
	And folks, don't bother with trying to get all the bonus questions - there are quite a few. So 67 is the maximum score, and the rest is well...bonus.

	chasmmi:	Nov 15th, 2009 at 14:56 GMT	-1 points
	There is also a fair amount of evidence supporting the theory that Korean is Altaic (especially in Korea). So maybe a bonus as Isolate/Altaic?

	Delia:	Nov 15th, 2009 at 15:41 GMT	3 points
	I think there's something wrong with your quiz. The quiz won't accept Serbian as an answer, yet it's listed as one of the languages.

	PurppuraSuihku:	Nov 15th, 2009 at 15:59 GMT	1 point
	@Delia, thanks for the heads-up - indeed I had forgotten to add the actual English name, in the midst of the jungle of native names.. @chasmmi, I pondered that as well, but from what I read, it seemed that the theory isn't widely accepted... I might be wrong.

	JayHankEdLyon:	Nov 16th, 2009 at 23:17 GMT	2 points
	Not sure why "French" doesn't have "(Francais)" under it, but oh well. Fun quiz, but really needs forced answer if you want us to be doing it by number instead of randomly guessing languages.

	Nerdoscience:	Nov 17th, 2009 at 02:40 GMT	1 point
	should accept serbocroatian for serbian

	PurppuraSuihku:	Nov 17th, 2009 at 04:38 GMT	1 point
	@JayHEL, you're probably right. I put the forced answer option now and increased time to 20 mins. I just thought that the quiz was hard enough to begin with, that's why I left it out. @Nerdoscience, the # of speakers is for Serbian only, so that's why it didn't accept Serbocroatian. I added it now to make things easier.

	Inyro:	Nov 19th, 2009 at 02:55 GMT	1 point
	I notice there's a 68th option in the regular quiz that has a blank answer and apparently 0 speakers.

	1447:	Nov 19th, 2009 at 15:21 GMT	2 points
	This quiz is awesome. Didn't know Hungarian was related to Finnish. I like how you have both the English and the native name for the language.

	PurppuraSuihku:	Nov 19th, 2009 at 18:11 GMT	1 point
	@Inyro, yeah there's a couple of bonus answers. For reasons unknown to me there's a blank line at the end... I'm not sure these things are connected. If sb knows how to get rid of the blank line, let me know..

	duckie527:	Feb 15th, 2010 at 21:40 GMT	1 point
	Really interesting! Where would Hebrew fit in, since it sort of died out as a spoken language and was deliberately brought back?

	Esme:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 22:23 GMT	3 points
	Basque for a bonus, since you have some other isolates? :)

	EGaffney:	Mar 2nd, 2010 at 10:17 GMT	2 points
	Time - you could reduce it to 10 or 15 minutes.

	PurppuraSuihku:	Apr 2nd, 2010 at 17:40 GMT	2 points
	I've reduced the time to 16 mins now. It was probably set too high.

	PurppuraSuihku:	Apr 2nd, 2010 at 17:42 GMT	1 point
	Added Basque as well, thanks for the tip.

	Shazy:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 21:52 GMT	0 points
	I think you should divide up Hindi and Urdu. They are two very different languages. One is based off of Sanskrit and the other is based off of Sanskrit and Farsi. If you including Punjabi seperately then Urdu and Hindi should be seperate.

	Shazy:	Apr 28th, 2010 at 22:02 GMT	1 point
	It was a nice quiz.

	chriskotx:	Aug 8th, 2010 at 02:02 GMT	2 points
	Quite a scholarly quiz. Why dont you call filipino: tagalog ?

	PurppuraSuihku:	Sep 13th, 2010 at 19:05 GMT	2 points
	Chris, I'm under the impression they're two separate languages, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_language.

	dancastro:	Sep 14th, 2010 at 14:12 GMT	1 point
	So 98.1% of the people here know that Spanish is a Romance language but only 90.2% know that English is a Germanic language? (Percentages after 530 plays).

	masaeaida:	Sep 18th, 2010 at 01:20 GMT	1 point
	I liked this. But the idea that there's such a thing as an "Altaic family" is a pretty controversial hypothesis; since all the languages listed are from the Turkic (sub)family, you might want to just call those "Turkic".

	ulashima:	Oct 5th, 2010 at 14:05 GMT	3 points
	@chriskotx: Philippines is a very diverse country with a lot of languages. One of them, Tagalog is a language spoken by a large population, and also the language close to the capital Manila. The government of Philippines is selected Tagalog to be the basis of the national language Filipino. Filipino is basically the officially standardized form of Tagalog, and both have just small differences. It's more of a political issue than a linguistic one.

	World_B_Free:	Oct 6th, 2010 at 00:02 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz! Missed the Uralic languages listed, always remember them being referred to as 'Finno-Ugric'... Just checked and the Uralic family comprises both the 'Finno-Ugric' and 'Samoyedic' language groups. The top three Uralic languages just happen to be Finno-Ugric. Also got thrown off momentarily by the 'Altaic'/'Turkic' thing, but once I guessed #1 I was back on track.

	World_B_Free:	Oct 6th, 2010 at 01:36 GMT	2 points
	@Duckie: Hebrew is in the Afro-Asiatic family as a member of the Semitic language group (alongside Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, etc). Although its initial use as a mother tongue declined in ancient times, it persevered in a number of disciplines (e.g., liturgy, literature, study) and underwent a revival/modernisation process for everyday use in the last couple hundred years or so. Wikipedia lists both Hebrew and Tigrinya as having 5+ million native speakers each, so they would probably be listed as Afro-Asiatic #6 and #7.

	bart122333:	Oct 25th, 2010 at 20:09 GMT	1 point
	'Nederlands' needs to be capitalized in Dutch. That probably also counts for some other languages...

	Claudi0:	Oct 28th, 2010 at 06:10 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz, my fellow Uralic friend! I still wonder how I managed to forgot Swedish but remembered languages such as Yoruba. :P

	daHOOK:	Nov 4th, 2010 at 19:52 GMT	1 point
	Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian are currently regarded by Ethnologue as three separate languages.

	thisisaname:	Dec 15th, 2010 at 04:19 GMT	2 points
	Isn't Breton the most spoken Celtic language? Also, "Native American", unlike the others, is not a language family. Quechua is Quechumaran, Guarani is Tupi-Guarani, etc. For consistency's sake, they shouldn't be lumped together.

	PurppuraSuihku:	Jan 10th, 2011 at 05:17 GMT	1 point
	@thisisaname: I'm well aware of that, but I wanted to include them so consistency had to be sacrificed.

	ILoveSBSP:	Aug 23rd, 2011 at 15:21 GMT	2 points
	Can you use groups and not use answers in order?

	PurppuraSuihku:	Aug 25th, 2011 at 15:09 GMT	1 point
	@ILoveBsp: i'm not sure what you mean by using groups but not forcing people to answer in order would probably just cause people to randomly guess languages they know and then see where in the chart they pop up.