Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Last updated: February 1999
The population figures in this table refer to first language speakers in all countries. Note that thesefigures are updated from the 13th Edition of the Ethnologue (1996).
Click on the language name to view its home country Ethnologue entry. For other countries inwhich the language is spoken, click on the three-letter abbreviation.
The entire database from which this table is extracted is available as a tab-delimited file suitable for importing into a database or spreadsheet program:http://www.sil.org/ftp/ethnolog13/langpop99.zip
Part of the Ethnologue, 13th Edition, Barbara F. Grimes, Editor.
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