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JSON list of main languages with language name and number of speakers
{
"af": {
"name": "Afrikaans",
"speakers": 15200000
},
"am": {
"name": "Amharic",
"speakers": 25800000
},
"sq": {
"name": "Albanian",
"speakers": 7500000
},
"ar": {
"name": "Arabic",
"speakers": 425000000
},
"hy": {
"name": "Armenian",
"speakers": 6400000
},
"az": {
"name": "Azerbaijani",
"speakers": 28000000
},
"eu": {
"name": "Basque",
"speakers": 720000
},
"be": {
"name": "Belarusian",
"speakers": 8600000
},
"bn": {
"name": "Bengali",
"speakers": 250000000
},
"bs": {
"name": "Bosnian",
"speakers": 3500000
},
"bg": {
"name": "Bulgarian",
"speakers": 9100000
},
"ca": {
"name": "Catalan",
"speakers": 11500000
},
"ceb": {
"name": "Cebuano",
"speakers": 21000000
},
"ny": {
"name": "Chichewa",
"speakers": 12000000
},
"zh": {
"name": "Chinese",
"speakers": 1026000000
},
"co": {
"name": "Corsican",
"speakers": 200000
},
"hr": {
"name": "Croatian",
"speakers": 16000000
},
"cs": {
"name": "Czech",
"speakers": 9500000
},
"da": {
"name": "Danish",
"speakers": 5600000
},
"nl": {
"name": "Dutch",
"speakers": 22000000
},
"sjn": {
"name": "Elvish",
"speakers": 1200000
},
"en": {
"name": "English",
"speakers": 765000000
},
"eo": {
"name": "Esperanto",
"speakers": 2000000
},
"et": {
"name": "Estonian",
"speakers": 1200000
},
"tl": {
"name": "Filipino",
"speakers": 25000000
},
"fo": {
"name": "Faroese",
"speakers": null
},
"fj": {
"name": "Fijian",
"speakers": 5000000
},
"fi": {
"name": "Finnish",
"speakers": 5000000
},
"fr": {
"name": "French",
"speakers": 68500000
},
"fy": {
"name": "Frisian",
"speakers": 470000
},
"gl": {
"name": "Galician",
"speakers": 2400000
},
"ka": {
"name": "Georgian",
"speakers": 4300000
},
"de": {
"name": "German",
"speakers": 111800000
},
"el": {
"name": "Greek",
"speakers": 13000000
},
"gu": {
"name": "Gujarati",
"speakers": 46600000
},
"haw": {
"name": "Hawaiian",
"speakers": 2000
},
"ht": {
"name": "Haitian Creole",
"speakers": 7700000
},
"ha": {
"name": "Hausa",
"speakers": 40000000
},
"he": {
"name": "Hebrew",
"speakers": 5300000
},
"hi": {
"name": "Hindi",
"speakers": 12500000
},
"hmn": {
"name": "Hmong",
"speakers": 4000000
},
"hu": {
"name": "Hungarian",
"speakers": 12500000
},
"is": {
"name": "Icelandic",
"speakers": 330000
},
"ig": {
"name": "Igbo",
"speakers": 18000000
},
"id": {
"name": "Indonesian",
"speakers": 23000000
},
"iu": {
"name": "Inuktitut",
"speakers": 34000
},
"iku": {
"name": "Inuinnaqtun",
"speakers": 410
},
"ga": {
"name": "Irish",
"speakers": 1000000
},
"it": {
"name": "Italian",
"speakers": 61100000
},
"ja": {
"name": "Japanese",
"speakers": 123000000
},
"jw": {
"name": "Javanese",
"speakers": 84300000
},
"kk": {
"name": "qazaq tili",
"speakers": 11000000
},
"kn": {
"name": "Kannada",
"speakers": 46700000
},
"km": {
"name": "Khmer",
"speakers": 16000000
},
"ko": {
"name": "Korean",
"speakers": 66400000
},
"kok": {
"name": "Konkani",
"speakers": 7400000
},
"ky": {
"name": "Кyrgyz",
"speakers": 4300000
},
"ku": {
"name": "Kurdish",
"speakers": 30000000
},
"ckb": {
"name": "Central Kurdish",
"speakers": 7250000
},
"sdh": {
"name": "Southern Kurdish",
"speakers": 5390000
},
"lo": {
"name": "Lao",
"speakers": 20000000
},
"lv": {
"name": "Latvian",
"speakers": 1700000
},
"lt": {
"name": "Lithuanian",
"speakers": 3000000
},
"lb": {
"name": "Luxembourgish",
"speakers": 390000
},
"mk": {
"name": "Macedonian",
"speakers": 2500000
},
"mg": {
"name": "Malagasy",
"speakers": 18000000
},
"ms": {
"name": "Malay",
"speakers": 59400000
},
"ml": {
"name": "Malayalam",
"speakers": 38000000
},
"mt": {
"name": "Maltese",
"speakers": 520000
},
"mr": {
"name": "Marathi",
"speakers": 71800000
},
"mn": {
"name": "Mongolian",
"speakers": 5700000
},
"mi": {
"name": "Māori",
"speakers": 60000
},
"my": {
"name": "Burmese",
"speakers": 42900000
},
"ne": {
"name": "Nepali",
"speakers": 14000000
},
"no": {
"name": "Norwegian",
"speakers": 5000000
},
"pap": {
"name": "Papiamento",
"speakers": 260000
},
"fa": {
"name": "Persian",
"speakers": 56600000
},
"pl": {
"name": "Polish",
"speakers": 39000000
},
"pt": {
"name": "Portuguese",
"speakers": 217000000
},
"pa": {
"name": "Punjabi",
"speakers": 29500000
},
"ps": {
"name": "Pashto",
"speakers": 60000000
},
"otq": {
"name": "Hñohño",
"speakers": 260000
},
"ro": {
"name": "Romanian",
"speakers": 23000000
},
"ru": {
"name": "Russian",
"speakers": 272000000
},
"sm": {
"name": "Samoan",
"speakers": 510000
},
"gd": {
"name": "Scottish Gaelic",
"speakers": 87000
},
"sr": {
"name": "Serbian",
"speakers": 16000000
},
"sr-LA": {
"name": "Serbian",
"speakers": 16000000
},
"sd": {
"name": "Sindhi",
"speakers": 75000000
},
"si": {
"name": "Sinhalese",
"speakers": 16000000
},
"sk": {
"name": "Slovak",
"speakers": 5000000
},
"sl": {
"name": "Slovenian",
"speakers": 2500000
},
"sn": {
"name": "Slovenian",
"speakers": 2500000
},
"st": {
"name": "Sotho",
"speakers": 5600000
},
"so": {
"name": "Somali",
"speakers": 14000000
},
"es": {
"name": "Spanish",
"speakers": 466000000
},
"su": {
"name": "Sundanese",
"speakers": 38000000
},
"sw": {
"name": "Swahili",
"speakers": 140000000
},
"sv": {
"name": "Swedish",
"speakers": 8300000
},
"ty": {
"name": "Tahitian",
"speakers": 68000
},
"ta": {
"name": "Tamil",
"speakers": 76800000
},
"tg": {
"name": "Tajik",
"speakers": 8400000
},
"te": {
"name": "Telugu",
"speakers": 79000000
},
"th": {
"name": "Thai",
"speakers": 60000000
},
"bo": {
"name": "Tibetan",
"speakers": 1200000
},
"to": {
"name": "Tongan",
"speakers": 96000
},
"tr": {
"name": "Turkish",
"speakers": 50700000
},
"uk": {
"name": "Ukrainian",
"speakers": 36000000
},
"ur": {
"name": "Urdu",
"speakers": 63400000
},
"uz": {
"name": "Uzbek",
"speakers": 27000000
},
"vi": {
"name": "Vietnamese",
"speakers": 67800000
},
"cy": {
"name": "Welsh",
"speakers": 740000
},
"xh": {
"name": "Xhosa",
"speakers": 8200000
},
"yi": {
"name": "Yiddish",
"speakers": 1500000
},
"yo": {
"name": "Yoruba",
"speakers": 21000000
},
"yua": {
"name": "Yucatec Maya",
"speakers": 790000
},
"yue": {
"name": "Yueh",
"speakers": 60000000
},
"zu": {
"name": "Zulu",
"speakers": 26000000
}
}
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