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Evan's Weekly Newsletter
Two of these are fictional languages (High Valyrian and Klingon) and one, Esperanto, is “an artificial language designed to be an international second language”. Wu is a minority languages in China, Javanese is a minority language in Indonesia, and the remaining 7 are minority languages in India. Rank Name Native Speakers 1 Chinese 1,350,000,000 2 Mandarin 940,000,000 3 Spanish 600,000,000 4 Hindustani 500,000,000 5 Arabic 380,000,000 6 English 380,000,000 7 Russian 255,000,000 8 Bengali 237,000,000 9 Portuguese 236,000,000 10 Punjabi 150,000,000 11 Japanese 123,000,000 12 Mexican Spanish 120,000,000 13 Nigerian PidginBroken 116,000,000 14 German 95,000,000 15 Vietnamese 85,000,000 16 Turkish 84,000,000 17 Marathi 83,000,000 18 Telugu 83,000,000 19 Wu 83,000,000 20 Malay 82,000,000 21…