Georgian: 3,579,000 native speakers

1. Georgian: 3,579,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

2. Georgian is a language of Georgia. Roughly 71% of the population there speak it as a first language. Georgian (c) www.worldmapper.org

3. Georgian Georgian is spoken by roughly 3.5 million people in at least 15 territories. Outside of Georgia, most of the speakers are in Russia, Iran and Turkey. The Georgian language has many dialects, which are divided into two main groups: eastern and western. (c) www.worldmapper.org

4. Kirghiz: 3,702,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

5. Kirghiz is a language of Kyrgyzstan. Roughly 48% of the population there speak it as a first language. Kirghiz (c) www.worldmapper.org

6. Kirghiz Kirghiz (or Kyrgyz) is one of the two official languages of Kyrgyzstan, where the majority of the roughly 3.2 million speakers live. Kirghiz is spoken in at least 8 territories. Most of the speakers outside Kyrgyzstan are in China, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. (c) www.worldmapper.org

7. Ewe: 3,735,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

8. Ewe is a language of Ghana. Roughly 11% of the population there speak it as a first language. Ewe (c) www.worldmapper.org

9. Ewe Ewe is spoken by roughly 3.7 million people, mostly in a contiguous region stretching over south-east Ghana, the southern half of Togo, and a small part of south-west Benin. There are also a small number of speakers in the United Kingdom. Ewe belongs to the Gbe group of closely-related languages. (c) www.worldmapper.org

10. Bambara: 3,860,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

11. Bambara is a language of Mali. Roughly 21% of the population there speak it as a first language. Bambara (c) www.worldmapper.org

12. Bambara Bambara is spoken by roughly 3 million people. The majority are in Mali; the other territories with recorded Bambara speaking populations are Senegal, Gambia, Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso. Bambara is closely related to Dioula, which is spoken in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Gambia. (c) www.worldmapper.org

13. Maninkakan: 3,910,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

14. Maninkakan is a language of Guinea. Roughly 23% of the population there speak it as a first language. Maninkakan (c) www.worldmapper.org

15. Maninkakan Maninkakan is the language of the Malinké people. It is spoken by nearly 4 million people, in at least six territories. The majority of speakers are in Guinea, Mali and Senegal, with smaller numbers in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gambia. (c) www.worldmapper.org

16. Wolof: 3,973,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

17. Wolof is a language of Senegal. Roughly 36% of the population there speak it as a first language. Wolof (c) www.worldmapper.org

18. Wolof Wolof is spoken by nearly 4 million first-language speakers, in at least six territories. The vast majority are in Senegal, and most of those who don't speak it as a first language in Senegal speak it as a second language. Thereafter, the greatest concentration of speakers are in Gambia, where it is popular in the capital Banjul. It is also spoken around the southern coastal regions of Mauritania. It has spread further afield; being spoken in France, the United Kingdom and Canada. (c) www.worldmapper.org

19. Hebrew: 4,151,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

20. Hebrew is a language of Israel. Roughly 77% of the population there speak it as a first language. Hebrew (c) www.worldmapper.org

21. Hebrew Hebrew is notable as a language that was all but dead as a regularly spoken language, but was revived in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Modern Hebrew is now spoken by roughly 5 million people in at least 7 territories. Hebrew is the language of Judaism, and Classical Hebrew is still used for prayer or study in Jewish communities. The vast majority of speakers are in Israel, where it is an official language. Large numbers are also found in the Palestinian territories and the United States. Smaller numbers live in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. (c) www.worldmapper.org

22. Norwegian: 4,258,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

23. Norwegian is a language of Norway. Roughly 96% of the population there speak it as a first language. Norwegian (c) www.worldmapper.org

24. Norwegian There are two forms of Norwegian, with equal official status in Norway; Bokmål ('book language', modern Norwegian, influenced by Danish) and Nynorsk (based on older Norwegian which survived in rural areas). In total there are roughly 4.4 million speakers of Norwegian, the vast majority being in Norway. There are also Norwegian-speaking communities numbering tens of thousands in the United States, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, and smaller numbers in Canada and Iceland. (c) www.worldmapper.org

25. Hmong: 4,294,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

26. Hmong is a language of China. Roughly 0.2% of the population there speak it as a first language. Hmong (c) www.worldmapper.org

27. Hmong Hmong is the language of the Hmong ethnic group, who live in mountainous regions from southern China, through Vietnam and Laos to Thailand. The two main dialects are White Hmong (Hmong Daw) and Green Mong (Mong Njua). J. Lemoine estimated the total population of Hmong speakers to be between 4 and 5 million, in 10 territories; the largest number (roughly 2.8 million) are in southern China, the remainder are found, in order of descending size, in Viet Nam, Lao People's Dem. Republic, the United States, Thailand, France, Myanmar, Australia, Argentina and Canada. (c) www.worldmapper.org

28. Slovak: 4,565,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

29. Slovak is a language of Slovakia. Roughly 84% of the population there speak it as a first language. Slovak (c) www.worldmapper.org

30. Slovak There are almost 5 million first-language speakers of Slovak, in at least 130 territories. The vast majority are in Slovakia, around 200 thousand are in the Czech Republic, and the remainder are in other European territories and the United States. Slovak and Czech are mutually intelligible, and might be considered to be dialects of the same language. Their influence on each other predates the creation of Czechoslovakia. (c) www.worldmapper.org

31. Kanuri: 4,975,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

32. Kanuri is a language of Nigeria. Roughly 3% of the population there speak it as a first language. Kanuri (c) www.worldmapper.org

33. Kanuri Kanuri is mainly spoken in the area around lake Chad, in the territories of Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Sudan. The number of speakers is somewhere between 4 and 5 million. Most Kanuri now speak Hausa and/or Arabic as in addition to Kanuri, and the influence of Kanuri is gradually declining due to the expansion of these two languages. (c) www.worldmapper.org

34. Tswana: 5,114,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

35. Tswana is a language of Botswana. Roughly 78% of the population there speak it as a first language. Tswana (c) www.worldmapper.org

36. Tswana Tswana (or Setswana) is spoken by roughly 5 million people. The largest concentration of speakers is over an area that covers northern South Africa and southern Botswana (where it is the national language, and spoken by most of the population). There are much smaller numbers of speakers in Zimbabwe and Namibia, and also a small number in the UK. (c) www.worldmapper.org

37. SeSotho: 5,140,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

38. SeSotho is a language of Lesotho. Roughly 98% of the population there speak it as a first language. SeSotho (c) www.worldmapper.org

39. SeSotho We estimate that Sesotho (Southern Sotho) is spoken by just over 5 million people. Most of these speakers are in South Africa and Lesotho; it is a national language in both territories. There are also small numbers of speakers in Botswana and the United Kingdom. Sesotho is strongly related to Northern Sotho and Tswana. (c) www.worldmapper.org

40. Finnish: 5,201,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

41. This small map removes the countries where Finnish is dominant. This map therefore only shows 7.3% of all speakers of Finnish. The territory omitted is Finland. Finnish (c) www.worldmapper.org

42. Finnish Finnish is closely related to Estonian. It is one of two official languages in Finland, and spoken by the majority of the population, and also by a sizeable population in Sweden. It is spoken in total by roughly 5.1 million speakers, in at least 9 territories, the others being the United States, Canada, Russia, the United Kingdom, Norway and Estonia. (c) www.worldmapper.org

43. Armenian: 5,277,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

44. This small map removes the countries where Armenian is dominant. This map therefore only shows 47.8% of all speakers of Armenian. The territory omitted is Armenia. Armenian (c) www.worldmapper.org

45. Armenian Although estimates of Armenian are put at just over 5 million speakers, it has spread throughout eastern Europe and the Middle East, and is spoken in at least 32 territories; many speakers are descendents of people forced to flee Armenia after the First World War. Armenian has its own written alphabet, known in the Armenian language as Hayeren. (c) www.worldmapper.org

46. Danish: 5,356,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

47. This small map removes the countries where Danish is dominant. This map therefore only shows 3% of all speakers of Danish. The territory omitted is Denmark. Danish (c) www.worldmapper.org

48. Danish Danish is spoken as a first language by roughly 5.3 million people, in at least 11 territories. It is the de facto language of Denmark, and until 2009 was an official language in Greenland, where it is spoken by most of the population as either a first or second language. Danish has many similarities with Norwegian and Swedish; in fact, all three are largely mutually intelligible, and are often considered as dialects of a Scandinavian continuum. There is a community of Danish speakers in northern Germany. There are also Danish speakers in the United States and the United Kingdom. (c) www.worldmapper.org

49. Tajiki: 5,378,000 native speakers Basemap modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Language_Families_%28wikicolors%29.png

50. Tajiki is a language of Tajikistan. Roughly 65% of the population there speak it as a first language. Tajiki (c) www.worldmapper.org