20 Most Spoken Languages

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The 20 most spoken native languages, according to the Ethnologue list. Note that the geographical distribution indicated by colors contains many simplifications, especially for countries where more than one of the languages is used.

Category: Linguistics

Tags: languages, populous, world

Created by Doffa March 21, 2007

Rating: 4
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Played 13,108 times  |  14 Fav's



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Game Comments (8)

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FlamingoPheebes  3 days, 5 hours ago

who cares how accurate the data iz? things could have changed since this game was made!

purpleprincess4evr  September 4, 2008

i like this game. a mi me gusta mucho. el juego es muy bueno.

Ilovesoccer0123  July 6, 2008

Good Game!!!!

etiennec  May 20, 2008

According to Wikipedia, 200 persons have French as a native language and 300 more as a second language. 65 M is hardly the population of France, it can't be right.

Doffa  March 23, 2007

Thats a fair comment - I should be using data on total number of speakers with the map as it is colored now. Perhaps I'll get to it within a few days.

Eric  March 23, 2007

Fair enough if you are talking about native language vs official language(s). The small confusion is that the map represents countries where the language is spoken or official (the French dot is in the middle of Africa). Not a biggy though. Still a good looking and informative game. Thank you!

Doffa  March 21, 2007

The data I have used (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnologue_list_of_most_spoken_languages) is based on people who use the respecitve languages as first language. Most of the French speaking people in Africa uses French as their second language, which explains the difference you point out.

Eric  March 21, 2007

Cool game, but something wrong with the data. French is spoken by 200M people across the world in 2007. The 65M you have is only the population of France.

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Highscores - 20 Most Spoken LanguagesPlace 1 - 10
 Player NameScoreTimeDate of Play
1 sarah 100% 0:16.1 min. 2008-02-26
2 Alexloulou 100% 0:16.5 min. 2008-02-29
3 Thomsiboms 100% 0:16.9 min. 2007-10-29
4 martinelmejor 100% 0:17.0 min. 2008-03-01
5 Cris51 100% 0:17.1 min. 2008-01-23
6 equestenebrarum 100% 0:17.1 min. 2008-01-21
7 USA 100% 0:17.2 min. 2008-11-06
8 gecian 100% 0:17.4 min. 2007-11-03
9 sergeidave 100% 0:17.4 min. 2008-01-25
10 jones 100% 0:17.5 min. 2008-03-02

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All Time High - 100% in 0:16.1 min.

Set by sarah February 26, 2008


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