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Complexity Rank | Language | Language Family, Subfamily | Native speakers population | Spoken Area |
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1 | Huli (new) | Trans-New Guinea, Main Section | 70,000 | Papua New Guinea |
2 | Ndom (new) | Trans-New Guinea, Kolopom | 450 | Frederik Hendrik Island (near New Guinea) |
3 | Nimbia | Afro-Asiatic, Chadic | ? | Nigeria |
4 | Hindi | Indo-European, Indo-Iranian | 182,000,000 | Northern India |
5 | Tzotzil | Mayan, Cholan-Tzeltalan | 265,000 | Mexico |
6 | Ainu | (language isolate) | 15 | Hokkaidō (Japan) |
7 | Alamblak | Sepik-Ramu, Sepik | 1,500 | Papua New Guinea |
8 | Nahuatl | Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan | 1,377,000 | Mexico |
9 | Malagasy | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | 10,156,900 | Madagascar |
10 | Yoruba | Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo | 20,000,000 | Nigeria, Benin |
11 | Welsh (Traditional) (new) | Indo-European, Celtic | 580,000 | Wales (U.K.) |
12 | Breton | Indo-European, Celtic | 500,000 | Brittany (France) |
13 | Manx | Indo-European, Celtic | 0 | Isle of Man (U.K., extinct) |
14 | Scots Gaelic | Indo-European, Celtic | 94,000 | Scotland (U.K.) |
15 | Georgian | South Caucasian, Georgian | 4,103,000 | Georgia |
16 | Danish | Indo-European, Germanic | 5,292,000 | Denmark |
17 | Javanese | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | 75,500,800 | Java (Indonesia) |
18 | Latin | Indo-European, Italic | 0 | Italy (extinct) |
19 | French | Indo-European, Italic | 72,000,000 | France |
20 | Zulu | Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo | 9,142,000 | South Africa |
21 | Basque | Basque | 580,000 | Basque (France, Spain) |
22 | Arabic | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic | 0 | West Asia, North Africa (ancient) |
23 | Ganda | Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo | 3,025,440 | Uganda |
24 | Maltese | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic | 370,000 | Malta |
25 | Assyrian | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic | 217,000 | Iraq |
26 | Kurmanji | Indo-European, Indo-Iranian | 7,000,000 | Turkey |
27 | Dutch | Indo-European, Germanic | 20,000,000 | Netherlands |
28 | German | Indo-European, Germanic | 98,000,000 | Germany |
29 | Swahili | Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo | 5,000,000 | Kenya, Tanzania |
30 | Ojibwa | Algic, Algonquian | 50,000 | Canada, U.S. |
31 | Italian | Indo-European, Italic | 37,000,000 | Italy |
32 | Spanish | Indo-European, Italic | 332,000,000 | Spain, Latin America |
33 | Swiss French | Indo-European, Italic | 1,272,000 | Switzerland |
34 | Tigrinya | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic | 6,060,000 | Eritrea, Ethiopia |
35 | Turkish | Altaic, Turkic | 59,000,000 | Turkey |
36 | Balkan Romani | Indo-European, Indo-Iranian | 1,000,000 | Former Yugoslavia |
37 | Hungarian | Uralic, Finno-Ugric | 14,500,000 | Hungary |
38 | Tagalog | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | 17,000,000 | Philippines |
39 | Polari | (unclassified) | 0 | U.K. |
40 | Scots | Indo-European, Germanic | 100,000 | Scotland (U.K.) |
41 | English | Indo-European, Germanic | 322,000,000 | U.S., U.K., etc. |
42 | Norwegian | Indo-European, Germanic | 5,000,000 | Norway |
43 | Swedish | Indo-European, Germanic | 9,000,000 | Sweden |
44 | Sukuma | Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo | 5,000,000 | Tanzania |
45 | Hawaiian | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | 1,000 | Hawaii |
46 | Finnish | Uralic, Finno-Ugric | 6,000,000 | Finland |
47 | Estonian | Uralic, Finno-Ugric | 1,100,000 | Estonia |
48 | Romanian | Indo-European, Italic | 1,500,000 | Romania |
49 | Ancient Japanese | Japanese | 0 | Japan (ancient) |
50 | Kiribati | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | 67,000 | Kiribati |
51 | Wolof | Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo | 3,215,000 | Senegal, Gambia |
52 | Croatian | Indo-European, Slavic | 21,000,000 | Croatia |
53 | Seneca | Iroquoian, Northern Iroquoian | 200 | U.S. |
54 | Indonesian | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | 17,050,000 | Indonesia |
55 | Mandinka | Niger-Congo, Mande | 914,500 | Senegal, Gambia |
56 | Wu Chinese | Sino-Tibetan, Chinese | 77,175,000 | Shanghai (China) |
57 | Tok Pisin | Creole, English-based | 50,000 | Papua New Guinea |
58 | Vietnamese | Austro-Asiatic, Mon-Khmer | 66,897,000 | Viet Nam |
59 | Igbo | Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo | 17,000,000 | Nigeria |
60 | Thai | Daic, Tai | 21,000,000 | Thailand |
61 | Welsh (Modern) (new) | Indo-European, Celtic | 580,000 | Wales (U.K.) |
62 | Aymara | Aymaran | 2,200,000 | Bolivia, Peru |
63 | Cuzco Quechua | Quechuan, Quechua II | 1,500,000 | Peru |
64 | Chinook Wawa | Pidgin, Amerindian | 100 | Canada, U.S. |
65 | Mandarin | Sino-Tibetan, Chinese | 885,000,000 | Northern China |
66 | Japanese | Japanese, Japanese | 125,000,000 | Japan |
67 | Cantonese | Sino-Tibetan, Chinese | 66,000,000 | Guangdong (China) |
68 | Esperanto | (artificial) | 200 | France etc. |
69 | Tongan | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | 123,000 | Tonga |