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List of languages by number of speakers in Europe

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This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only.

List

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Rank Name Native speakers Total speakers
1 Russian 106,000,000[1] 160,000,000[1]
2 German 85,000,000[2] 130,000,000[2]
3 French 67,000,000[2] 112,000,000[2]
4 English 67,000,000[2][3][4] 280,000,000[2][3]
5 Italian 58,000,000[2] 72,000,000[2]
6 Spanish 40,000,000[2] 76,000,000[2]
7 Polish 38,000,000[2][3]
8 Ukrainian 32,600,000[5]
9 Romanian 24,000,000[6] 28,000,000[7]
10 Dutch 22,000,000[2] 24,000,000[2]
11[a] Serbo-Croatian 19,000,000[8]
11 Turkish 15,752,673[9]
12 Bavarian 14,000,000[10]
13 Portuguese 11,000,000[2]
14 Hungarian 11,000,000[2]
15 Greek 11,000,000[2]
16 Czech 10,600,000[11]
17 Swedish 10,000,000[2] 11,000,000[2]
18 Catalan 10,000,000[12]
19 Serbian 9,000,000[13]
20 Bulgarian 7,800,000[14]
21 Albanian
Arbëresh
Arvanitika		 5,367,000[15]
5,877,100[16] (Balkans)
22 Neapolitan 5,700,000[17]
23 Croatian 5,600,000[18]
24 Danish 5,500,000[19]
25 Finnish 5,400,000[20]
26 Norwegian 5,200,000[21]
Slovak 5,200,000[22]
28 Swiss German 5,000,000[23]
29 Mainfränkisch 4,900,000[24]
30 Sicilian 4,700,000[25]
31 Tatar 4,300,000[26]
32 Venetian 3,800,000[27]
33 Lombard 3,600,000[28]
34 Belarusian 3,300,000[29]
35 Lithuanian 3,000,000[30]
36 Bosnian 2,500,000[31]
37 Galician 2,400,000[32]
38 Slovene 2,100,000[33]
39 Upper Saxon 2,000,000[34]
40 Irish 1,873,997 (census)[35]

240,000[36]
41 Latvian 1,750,000[37]
42 Macedonian 1,600,000[38]
Piedmontese 1,600,000[39]
43 Romani 1,500,000[40]
44 Chechen 1,400,000[41]
45 Sardinian 1,350,000[42]
46 Limburgish 1,300,000 (2001)[43]
47 Bashkir 1,221,000[44]
48 Chuvash 1,100,000[45]
49 Estonian 1,165,400[46]
50 Low German (Low Saxon) 1,000,000[47] 2,600,000[47]
Kazakh 1,000,000[48]
Palatinate German 1,000,000[49]
53 Ripuarian (Platt) 900,000[50]
54 Swabian German 820,000[51]
55 Avar 760,000
56 Basque 750,000[52]
57 Friulan 600,000[53]
Walloon 600,000[54]
Yiddish 600,000[55]
60 Welsh 538,000[56] 899,500[57] 750,000[58]
61 Kabardian 530,000[59]
62 Silesian 522,000[60]
63 Maltese 520,000[61]
64 Azerbaijani 500,000[62]
Ligurian 500,000[63]
Mari 500,000[64]
Occitan 500,000[65]
68 Crimean Tatar 480,000[66]
69 Frisian 470,000[67]
70 Kumyk 450,000[68]
Ossetian 450,000[69]
72 Rhaeto-Romance 370,000[70]
73 Asturian (Astur-Leonese) 351,791[71] 641,502[71]
74 Udmurt 340,000[72]
75 Luxembourgish 336,000[73] 386,000[73]
76 Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino) 320,000[74] few[75]
77 Icelandic 330,000[76]
78 Karachay-Balkar 300,000[77]
Ingush 300,000[78]
80 Montenegrin 240,700[79]
81 Komi 220,000[80]
Zeelandic 220,000[81]
83 Breton 206,000[82]
84 Extremaduran 200,000[83]
Picard 200,000[84]
86 Franco-Provençal (Arpitan) 140,000[85]
Gagauz 140,000[86]
87 Tabasaran 126,900[87]
88 Erzya 120,000[88]
89 Adyghe 117,500[89]
90 Aromanian 114,000[90]
91 Scots 110,000[91]
92 Võro 87,000[92]
93 Kalmyk 80,500[93]
94 Faroese 66,150[94]
95 Scottish Gaelic 57,000[95]
96 Norman 50,000[96]
Kashubian 50,000[97]
98 Abaza 49,800[98]
99 Karelian 36,000[99]
100 Corsican 30,000[100] 125,000[100]
Tat 30,000[101]
102 Aragonese 25,000[102] 55,000[103]
103 Sami 23,000[104]
104 Walser German 20,000[105]
Sorbian (Wendish) 20,000[106]
Italiot Greek 20,000 native speakers in 1981[107] 50,000
107 Yenish 16,000[108]
108 Silesian German 11,000[109]
109 Nenets 4,000[110]
110 Mirandese 3,500[111]
111 Megleno-Romanian 3,000[112]
112 Kven 2,000-8,000
113 Moksha 2,000[113]
Elfdalian 2,000
114 Vepsian 1,640[114]
115 Istro-Romanian 1,100[115]
116 Istriot 900[116]
117 Cornish 557[117]
118 Cimbrian 400[118]
119 Judeo-Italian 250[119]
120 Manx 230[120] 2,300[121]
121 Ingrian 120[122]
122 Wymysorys less than 20 70[123]
123 Latin dead only several dozen and definitely less than 100[124]
unranked Emilian
Romagnol
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Notes

  1. [a]
    In linguistics, Serbo-Croatian is synonymous with standardised varieties of the Shtokavian dialect, which forms the basis of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian standard languages; thus these national forms are largely mutually intelligible varieties of one pluricentric language. Other Serbo-Croatian dialects, Chakavian, Kajkavian and Torlak, are also considered separate languages on terms of mutual intelligibility by linguists.

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