Can you name the Most spoken languages in Europe ? by british

Clue	Language	Number of Speakers (roughly)
Привет		125,000,000
Hallo		98,000,000
Bonjour		70,000,000
Hello		65,000,000
Salve		65,000,000
Hola		47,000,000
Witam		39,000,000
Привіт		39,000,000
Alo		30,000,000
Hallo		22,000,000
Szia		15,000,000
Γεια σας		12,000,000
Olá		12,000,000
Здраво		12,000,000
Merhaba		12,000,000
Hej		10,000,000
Ahoj		10,000,000
Здравейте		10,000,000
Hola		9,000,000

Clue	Language	Number of Speakers (roughly)
Përshëndetje		8,500,000
Прывітанне		8,000,000
Bok		6,200,000
Hej		5,500,000
Hei		5,500,000
Hallo		5,000,000
Ahoj		5,000,000
Sveiki		4,000,000
Ola		3,000,000
Bok		2,700,000
Pozdravljeni		2,500,000
Sveiki		2,000,000
Здраво		2,000,000
Hello		1,000,000
Tere		1,000,000
Bonjour		450,000
Dia duit		400,000
Halló		300,000
Bok		160,000

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Most spoken languages in Europe Quiz

by british

Created Apr 25, 2011 in Geography
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	boris4c:	Apr 25th, 2011 at 20:05 GMT	-4 points
	What about Walloon and Flemish?

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	carbon_rod:	Apr 25th, 2011 at 20:16 GMT	3 points
	Minor nit, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeting has Kaixo as Basque for Hello.

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	flixuk:	Apr 25th, 2011 at 22:22 GMT	7 points
	Flemish is not a language. The only official languages of Belgium are Dutch, French, and German. Only a very few people speak the Walloon language; sadly, it has all but been replaced by French.

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	professor88:	Apr 26th, 2011 at 00:45 GMT	8 points
	please accept Belorusian/Belorussian

	Sesel:	Apr 26th, 2011 at 02:18 GMT	7 points
	I don't think "bonjour" is a Maltese word...

	Riko:	Apr 26th, 2011 at 06:46 GMT	4 points
	'Hello' and 'hola' are loanwords in Basque but not actual Basque words. Kaixo is the native word.

	patrick94:	Apr 26th, 2011 at 08:34 GMT	4 points
	Salve for Italian? Thats a bit formal, and it is well-known that Italians use 'ciao'

	AutonomusPlebian:	Apr 26th, 2011 at 10:28 GMT	1 point
	Accept Gaelic

	professor88:	Apr 26th, 2011 at 10:38 GMT	12 points
	...since you look for "spoken languages", it'd be good if you added the immigrant/minority languages (Arabic, Chinese, Tataric, etc. etc.)

	johnlk:	Apr 26th, 2011 at 15:48 GMT	3 points
	Walloon is a French dialect. Doesn't Welsh have more speakers than Irish Gaelic?

	h4ydn:	Apr 26th, 2011 at 16:24 GMT	0 points
	if i would have wanted to do the nationalities of europe i would have, i'm sure that there are more mandarin speakers than galeic

	flixuk:	Apr 26th, 2011 at 16:43 GMT	2 points
	Walloon is not a French dialect. It has been recognised as a distinct language for centuries...

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	Dr_Nibbles:	Apr 27th, 2011 at 07:10 GMT	2 points
	actually if you know any italians, they will most likely greet you with ciao!

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	Pelmert:	Apr 27th, 2011 at 07:51 GMT	2 points
	Nibbles, it's probably the European part the 12 mln

	AutonomusPlebian:	Apr 27th, 2011 at 12:29 GMT	-1 points
	No, Gaelic is the correct term for Irish, the language commonly referred to as Scots Gaelic is actually Gallic

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	Dr_Nibbles:	Jun 2nd, 2011 at 10:22 GMT	-1 points
	I still would like to know where you get your numbers for Turkish from though. In Germany alone, there are 4 mil native speakers for Turkish, not to mention the rest of Europe. If you have a look here, you'll see that there's 9 mil living in the European part of Turkey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_in_Europe#Demographics Add to that the ca. 9 mil Turks in the diaspora, and you'll have 18 mil, and not 12. So I'd still like to know where you pulled that number from

	Dr_Nibbles:	Jun 2nd, 2011 at 10:26 GMT	5 points
	Also, regarding Italian, if you know any Italians greeting you with Salve, they're either messing with you, by using Latin, or you only know Italians that lived a few hundred years ago. Nowadays people generally use Ciao May I suggest consulting a dictionary? http://www.wordreference.com/enit/hello http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-italian/hello No mention of Salve, but Ciao is there, right?

	Dr_Nibbles:	Jun 2nd, 2011 at 10:27 GMT	8 points
	It's a pity that you're so stubborn in correcting your mistakes, because otherwise this could be a great quiz.

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	DaneOfScandinavy:	Jun 12th, 2011 at 09:24 GMT	6 points
	Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Montenegrin are the same language: Serbo-Croatian

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	Bober:	Jun 20th, 2011 at 11:49 GMT	5 points
	not at all like latin being backbone of romance languages. Perhaps more like English being the backbone of British English, Irish English, American English. Not even Australian, that one is too different already.

	eppingforestbard:	Jun 20th, 2011 at 22:29 GMT	9 points
	@british: Have you ever been to Italy or spoken to an Italian? The Italians all use "ciao" for hello and goodbye and have done for many decades. I have never heard "salve" outside of a novel or film. Where did you get this from? As for Irish, it is normally referred to as Gaelic or more correctly Gaeilge (pronounced gayle-ick) by Irish and British people. It it very similar to Scots Gaelic (pronounced ga-lick with a short 'a'. They are, or were, the same language but pronounciation differences prevent them from being mutually comprehensible. I agree with DaneOfScandinavy that the Serbo-Croat languages are really just dialects of the same language. They are mutually comprehensible. Bober is correct. Romance languages are very distinctly different languages which are not mutually comprehensible in most cases.

	European11:	Jun 21st, 2011 at 21:22 GMT	1 point
	Actually salve is like the formal greeting of hello i believe. ciao would be like hey or hi, and salve would be hello. i agree with bober as well, serbo-croatian is basically the group of the languages, however it is not at all like latin with the romance languages, because the romance languages are BASED off latin; for example montenegrin is not based off serbo-croatian..

	bicyclerace:	Jul 1st, 2011 at 00:37 GMT	3 points
	if you have icelandic and maltese then you definitely need welsh

	European11:	Jul 1st, 2011 at 16:29 GMT	4 points
	i agree. welsh has more speakers than icelandic and irish.

	bicyclerace:	Jul 12th, 2011 at 10:31 GMT	0 points
	oh and I'm pretty sure luxembourgish would be on here too, though I'm not sure how many people speak it, but welsh definitely should at over 600000 speakers

	ProffesorYana:	Aug 17th, 2011 at 16:02 GMT	4 points
	i speak welsh

	british:	Aug 20th, 2011 at 05:35 GMT	-4 points
	congratulations...

	Enric:	Nov 29th, 2011 at 03:11 GMT	1 point
	Hello isn't basque... hello is english come on. Hello in basque is kaixo. Bonjour is good morning no hello. If you type Bonjour for french then catalan should be "bon dia". You forgot many languages with more speakers like Sardinian (850,000), Occitan (800,000), Mari (490,000), Breton (200,000), Volga Tatar (5,350,000), Chechen (1,330,000), Chuvash (1,330,000), Crimea Tatar (483,990), Moksha (614,000) Erzya (697,000) or Kabardian (590,000).

	british:	Nov 29th, 2011 at 23:12 GMT	-4 points
	One word does not always simply belong to one language. Bonjour was added because it is a) commonly used for most of the day. and b) it is commonly misused/misknown to be hello. I am not sure why certain languages were not added, but it was the source who took them out not me. I don't see a point in changing it because this quiz has been made many times and its not going to become great if I fix it.

	Sherry_t:	Feb 18th, 2012 at 16:53 GMT	3 points
	I thought Montenegrin and Serbian were the same language.

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