Can you name the 16 Most Spoken Languages In The EU? by Zursiedel

% Of EU Population	Language	Countries
51%		United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta
32%
26%		France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy
16%		Italy, Slovenia and Malta
15%		Spain
10%
7%		Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Greece
6%		Netherlands, Belgium and France

% Of EU Population	Language	Countries
5%		Romania and Moldova
3%		Sweden and Finland
3%		Greece, Cyprus and Italy
3%		Czech Republic, Austria and Slovakia
2%
2%		Portugal
2%		Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary
2%		Spain and France

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Most Spoken Languages In Europe Quiz

by Zursiedel

Created May 11, 2010 in Language
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	micah:	May 12th, 2010 at 09:04 GMT	10 points
	Source? I'm a little bit surprised that less than 2% of the EU speaks Arabic even as a second language...

	Jam1:	May 12th, 2010 at 15:38 GMT	1 point
	I think this only includes European languages

	caramba:	May 12th, 2010 at 16:01 GMT	4 points
	You need a source and, judging by the scores, there is too much time.

	thisisaname:	May 13th, 2010 at 00:56 GMT	3 points
	Please reduce the width of the two leftmost columns and increase the width of the third column.

	HiddenPalace:	May 13th, 2010 at 19:29 GMT	3 points
	Funny how Catalan is least guessed and is the only one that doesn't correspond with what is thought of as a country's main national language. I had a feeling that it would be there though.

	Pit_trout:	May 14th, 2010 at 03:21 GMT	3 points
	Definitely needs a source, and if it's only considering European languages, should say so in the notes! Interesting, though.

	chaste:	May 18th, 2010 at 16:34 GMT	1 point
	In Switserland they speak italian too.

	mukaltin:	Jun 29th, 2010 at 20:48 GMT	1 point
	EU is not Europe actually

	chaste:	Jul 17th, 2010 at 09:53 GMT	2 points
	Of course, excuse me.

	Hamburger:	Sep 5th, 2010 at 09:06 GMT	1 point
	Moldova is not an EU country. It is listed as one after the language "Romanian".

	chriskotx:	Sep 6th, 2010 at 03:17 GMT	0 points
	I'm pretty sure I put in Hungarian and it didnt show up. Is Slavic not the same as Slovak?

	johnlk:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 05:41 GMT	5 points
	How fluent does one need to be? Dutch is spoken as a first language or a strong second language by about 23 million people in Belgium and the Netherlands. There's probably not many speakers outside those two countries, but I find it hard to believe that there's more Russian speakers, when the combined population of the Baltics, the only countries in the EU where a sizeable portion of the population speaks Russian, is less than 7 million. Is this just counting anyone who took even a year of the language in school? And where are these supposed Russian speakers in Greece coming from?

	rca:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 20:57 GMT	0 points
	No Ukrainian?

	mswlhljtp:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 16:18 GMT	2 points
	Nice idea for a quiz, thanks. I think we'd all love to see a source though. Might put our minds and queries at rest!

	mswlhljtp:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 16:24 GMT	2 points
	@chriskotx: Slovak is the language spoken in Slovakia. Slavic is an entire branch of Indo-European languages, including Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Croatian, Old Slavonic and others.

	mswlhljtp:	Mar 3rd, 2011 at 16:29 GMT	2 points
	Hamburger has a point, Moldova isn't an EU member state. @rca: Ukrainian probably doesn't show up because Ukraine isn't in the EU either, and Ukrainian isn't spoken much elsewhere.

	askf:	Aug 14th, 2011 at 18:14 GMT	1 point
	@HiddenPalace: It's not at all funny that, as you say, Catalan is least guessed and the only one that isn't thought of as a national language. I would imagine most Sporclers do this quiz the same way: by running through the countries of Europe, in which case they're not going to think of Catalonia. (I did, but I'm a linguist [she says modestly, patting herself on the back].)

	carbon_rod:	Aug 14th, 2011 at 20:34 GMT	1 point
	I believe Catalan is the everyday language of Andorra, though.

	Enric:	Nov 29th, 2011 at 03:31 GMT	0 points
	This is a good quiz but I think someone mistaked bulgarian with slovakian. Catalan and bulgarian (no listed) have more speakers than slovak. Arab should have many immigrant speakers but more than 2%? I doubt this. Ukrainian or some other european languages can't be in the list because it's only about European Union languages. I have seen this list before so it was really easy to me. Catalan is the national language of catalans like me. Andorra doesn't matter much for this quiz, its population is tiny and outside the European Union. So catalan is the most spoken unofficial language of the European Union.