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Can you name the most common language families by number of native speakers?
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schwhatever
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Language Family
Percent of World Population
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46% (Spanish, English, Hindi/Urdu)
2
21% (Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese)
3
6.4% (Yoruba, Igbo, Fula)
4
6.0% (Arabic, Hausa, Amharic)
5
5.9% (Javanese, Tagalog, Malay)
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3.7% (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam)
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2.3% (Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek)
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2.1% (Japanese)
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1.7% (Vietnamese, Khmer, Santali)
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1.3% (Thai, Zhuang, Shan)
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Language Families by Native Speakers Quiz
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Created Jul 31, 2010 in
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tnty4life
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Jul 31st, 2010 at 19:59 GMT
1 point
Bahahah. I tried Latin.
Williams27
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Jul 31st, 2010 at 20:55 GMT
1 point
Nice quiz. Really puts the dominance of IE into context.
chriskotx
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Jul 31st, 2010 at 21:43 GMT
1 point
I was putting "chinese" "latin" "slavic" "germanic".
Schkum
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Aug 6th, 2010 at 16:54 GMT
1 point
Altaic is still just theoretical.
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