Languages with their corresponding language families and speakers.Reach indicates the combined number of first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) speakers as a percentage of the world population (Ethnologue, Simons and Fennig, 2018).
| Family . | Branch . | Language . | Reach . |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indo-European | Germanic | English | 16.46% |
| German | 1.70% | ||
| Dutch | 0.38% | ||
| Swedish | 0.17% | ||
| Danish | 0.08% | ||
| Norwegian | 0.07% | ||
| Italic | Spanish | 6.99% | |
| French | 3.59% | ||
| Portuguese | 3.28% | ||
| Italian | 0.87% | ||
| Balto-Slavic | Russian | 3.35% | |
| Polish | 0.58% | ||
| Sino-Tibetan | Sinitic | Mandarin | 14.54% |
| Cantonese | 1.10% | ||
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Arabic | 4.44% |
| Hebrew | 0.12% | ||
| Austronesian | Malayo-Poly. | Malay | 3.47% |
| Japonic | Japonic | Japanese | 1.64% |
| Austroasiatic | Vietic | Vietnamese | 1.00% |
| Khmer | Khmer | 0.21% | |
| Turkic | Com. Turkic | Turkish | 1.10% |
| Kra–Dai | Tai | Thai | 0.78% |
| Koreanic | Han | Korean | 1.03% |
| Uralic | Finnic | Finnish | 0.07% |
| Ugric | Hungarian | 0.17% | |
| Family . | Branch . | Language . | Reach . |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indo-European | Germanic | English | 16.46% |
| German | 1.70% | ||
| Dutch | 0.38% | ||
| Swedish | 0.17% | ||
| Danish | 0.08% | ||
| Norwegian | 0.07% | ||
| Italic | Spanish | 6.99% | |
| French | 3.59% | ||
| Portuguese | 3.28% | ||
| Italian | 0.87% | ||
| Balto-Slavic | Russian | 3.35% | |
| Polish | 0.58% | ||
| Sino-Tibetan | Sinitic | Mandarin | 14.54% |
| Cantonese | 1.10% | ||
| Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Arabic | 4.44% |
| Hebrew | 0.12% | ||
| Austronesian | Malayo-Poly. | Malay | 3.47% |
| Japonic | Japonic | Japanese | 1.64% |
| Austroasiatic | Vietic | Vietnamese | 1.00% |
| Khmer | Khmer | 0.21% | |
| Turkic | Com. Turkic | Turkish | 1.10% |
| Kra–Dai | Tai | Thai | 0.78% |
| Koreanic | Han | Korean | 1.03% |
| Uralic | Finnic | Finnish | 0.07% |
| Ugric | Hungarian | 0.17% | |