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When updating, please give references. --> This is a list of languages placed in order by the number of native-language speakers, with some data for second-language use. Only languages spoken natively by more than ten million are listed, and then they are listed for secondary locations only when spoken by more than 1% of the population. For practical reasons in compiling this list, some mutually intelligible idioms with separate national standards or self identification have been listed separately, such as Scandinavian , Hindustani , and Malay . This should NOT be taken as an endorsement of any side of Dialect Versus Language debates. For the purposes of this article, a " Native Language " is a language with which a person was raised, while a " Second Language " is a language that person would use for instruction or everyday communication outside the home. A person may be natively Multilingual . Countries that are not Sovereign States are listed according to the corresponding sovereign states. Data are not all up to date. For a comparison of various estimates, see Language Speaker Data . For languages spoken by very few people, and so in danger of extinction, see List Of Endangered Languages . 100 MILLION NATIVE SPEAKERS OR MORE 30–100 MILLION NATIVE SPEAKERS 10–30 MILLION NATIVE SPEAKERS 3–10 MILLION NATIVE SPEAKERS 1–3 MILLION NATIVE SPEAKERS FEWER THAN 1 MILLION NATIVE SPEAKERS REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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