Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

[MF-Warburg]

Actually, currently the requirements are
- most-used messages for the first project in a language
- continuing translation activity on TWN for all others
Am 02.06.2015 02:18 schrieb "Milos Rancic" :

> On Jun 2, 2015 02:08, "MZMcBride"  wrote:
> >
> > Milos Rancic wrote:
> > >On Jun 2, 2015 00:39, "Benjamin Lees"  wrote:
> > >>"Won't get a project"? Are you saying that new project language
> > >> editions are only approved if the MediaWiki messages for that language
> > >> are all translated already? (Maybe I'm misunderstanding.)
> > >
> > >[...]
> > >
> > >It would be useful for the sake of future arguments to have data how
> often
> > >people access to particular messages.
> >
> > Directly related: .
> > Though upon re-reading it just now, the specific wording used at
> >  is actually
> > softer than I thought ("it is recommended" instead of a hard
> requirement).
>
> Will read Phabricator discussion in the morning...
>
> Regarding LPP wording, as I mentioned above, it's theory. Practice is
> pretty hard and was even harder in the past. I remember Robin and I were
> waging hard battles for every set we wanted to remove from requirements.
>
> I am sure that's documented somewhere, but I forgot where. It should be
> somewhere on Meta.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

[Milos Rancic]

On Jun 2, 2015 02:08, "MZMcBride"  wrote:
>
> Milos Rancic wrote:
> >On Jun 2, 2015 00:39, "Benjamin Lees"  wrote:
> >>"Won't get a project"? Are you saying that new project language
> >> editions are only approved if the MediaWiki messages for that language
> >> are all translated already? (Maybe I'm misunderstanding.)
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >It would be useful for the sake of future arguments to have data how
often
> >people access to particular messages.
>
> Directly related: .
> Though upon re-reading it just now, the specific wording used at
>  is actually
> softer than I thought ("it is recommended" instead of a hard requirement).

Will read Phabricator discussion in the morning...

Regarding LPP wording, as I mentioned above, it's theory. Practice is
pretty hard and was even harder in the past. I remember Robin and I were
waging hard battles for every set we wanted to remove from requirements.

I am sure that's documented somewhere, but I forgot where. It should be
somewhere on Meta.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

[MZMcBride]

Milos Rancic wrote:
>On Jun 2, 2015 00:39, "Benjamin Lees"  wrote:
>>"Won't get a project"? Are you saying that new project language
>> editions are only approved if the MediaWiki messages for that language
>> are all translated already? (Maybe I'm misunderstanding.)
>
>[...]
>
>It would be useful for the sake of future arguments to have data how often
>people access to particular messages.

Directly related: .
Though upon re-reading it just now, the specific wording used at
 is actually
softer than I thought ("it is recommended" instead of a hard requirement).

MZMcBride



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

[Milos Rancic]

On Jun 2, 2015 00:39, "Benjamin Lees"  wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Milos Rancic  wrote:
> > * MediaWiki is developing and messages are changing. While it doesn't
> > matter a lot for the main language to have 99% and not 100% of
> > translated most used messages, the new one won't get a project if it's
> > not 100%. (The situation as it is; I don't like it, but I can't change
> > it.)
>
> "Won't get a project"? Are you saying that new project language
> editions are only approved if the MediaWiki messages for that language
> are all translated already? (Maybe I'm misunderstanding.)

Writing from the phone, so can't give links... Search for Language proposal
policy on Meta. That's theory. I described above how it translates into the
practice.

It makes sense up to certain point. MediaWiki interface should be in the
native language. The condition for the first project isn't hard. It's about
500 messages.

In relation to the second and third project I think there are much more
sensible work to be done than translating various obscure places of MW
interface. (Few years ago few of us, after a lot of arguing removed
translation of CheckUser interface as a requirement for the third project,
likely Wikibooks or Wikisource.)

It would be useful for the sake of future arguments to have data how often
people access to particular messages.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

[Benjamin Lees]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Milos Rancic  wrote:
> * MediaWiki is developing and messages are changing. While it doesn't
> matter a lot for the main language to have 99% and not 100% of
> translated most used messages, the new one won't get a project if it's
> not 100%. (The situation as it is; I don't like it, but I can't change
> it.)

"Won't get a project"? Are you saying that new project language
editions are only approved if the MediaWiki messages for that language
are all translated already? (Maybe I'm misunderstanding.)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

[Milos Rancic]

Richard, the spreadsheet could be found here [1]. I compiled the list
again and it assumes some more languages (Swahili, for example), which
didn't have numbers in Ethnologue's data.

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Asaf Bartov  wrote:
> For some of these languages, I don't see that this makes sense, in terms of
> investment versus impact, or in terms of putting the cart before the
> horse.  Tsonga, for example, seems to have precisely one active editor[1]
> -- no doubt, our colleague Dumisani Ndubane (CCed as a courtesy).  While it
> is indeed his native language, it does not seem like a good investment of
> effort to translate hundreds of pages and thousands of strings into Tsonga
> when he (and, with overwhelming likelihood, any other literate speaker of
> Tsonga) is also fluent (and educated in) English.  Xhosa, Hausa and Zulu
> are in the same class[2][3][4].

It's not just about English. I've realized that there is the third
group of the languages, which include the fact that speakers of
various languages are in fact fluent in the other languages of the
same area. Thus, those numbers could mislead. But, this is the initial
data, for further analysis.

> ...
> Again, there already exists a community of dedicated contributors to the
> Urdu Wikipedia[5] (apparently more from India than from Pakistan, no doubt
> partially due to script issues[6]).  Some of you, particularly in the last
> year, have been energetically mentoring newcomers and doing outreach
> activities.  Our colleagues Nisar Ahmad Syed and Muzammiluddin Syed (CCed)
> are two such volunteers.  Now, what, precisely, are you suggesting?

Members of our community native in a language widely as L2 (or
similar) have wider responsibility for keeping translations up to
date. According to the present situation, their responsibility to
[usually] minority languages is even greater than the responsibility
toward their own language, as it's matter of would that language have
or not Wikimedia project(s).

For example, if we get a community interested and being capable to
have a number of Wikimedia projects, but not that fluent in English,
we need to cover in their L2 all important MediaWiki messages and keep
them up to date.

There are two problems with which a group of enthusiasts in such
linguistic situation:
* They have to translate ~500 messages and it's not a time consuming
problem. However, even Hindi and Arabic don't have 100% of translated
messages from that group [2] (likely one message is the issue). If we
count on, let's say, dozens of volunteers educated in Hindi or Arabic
but far from being fluent in English, that could be significant
problem. If they want to create the next project, let's say Wiktionary
to gather lexical data -- and I think the second two message groups
have to be translated for that (not quite sure, will have to take a
look into the LangCom list archives) --, they have even bigger
problem. If they want to create the third one, let's say Wikibooks, to
create educational textbooks, they are likely in front of the problem
which they won't be able to solve.
* MediaWiki is developing and messages are changing. While it doesn't
matter a lot for the main language to have 99% and not 100% of
translated most used messages, the new one won't get a project if it's
not 100%. (The situation as it is; I don't like it, but I can't change
it.)

It turns out that the threshold for very small languages is much
higher than for the big ones. And we have to find a way to help them.
L2 languages are one of the good starting points.

Further... We don't have statistics related to the translation of the
articles which define Wikipedia, Wikimedia and other projects. And
that has to be translated by Wikimedians who are well into the matter
and understand fully the meaning of the content. (I don't even want to
open the question of the fact that we don't have those defining
documents on Meta, but on English language projects; more than a
decade of Wikimedia Foundation existence.) So, even we use customary
rules "translate it from English Wikipedia", we are pretty incapable
of following the translation paths. And that's quite important to us.
I mean, important so much that it defines who we are and what we
expect from newcomers.

And I didn't say anything about current events, of which the most
important ones should be transferred to as many as possible
Wikimedians, including those who don't speak English. (It isn't
realistic to expect transfer of information to a Wikimedian who speaks
just his or her native language, while Wikipedia in that language has
few dozens of active editors or less.)

Now, what I suggest...

First of all, I'd like to see the most important content translated
into the languages used for wider communication. Which methods would
be used, it's different question and while I will suggest some of
them, I really don't mind if a different approach or approaches would
be used.

If we want to do that, we should define "the starter k

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

[Asaf Bartov]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Milos Rancic  wrote:

> [...]
> But there are a number of languages in between with active chapter(s) or
> user group(s) inside of relevant countries. Those languages should be the
> priority in promotion collaboration.
>
> They are: Arabic (Arabic user groups), Indonesian (WM ID), Hindi (WM IN),
> Urdu (Pakistani user group), Thai (Thailand UG), Bengali (WM BD), Zulu (WM
> ZA), Hausa (West African user groups), Xhosa (WM ZA), Afrikaans (WM ZA),
> Kannada (WM IN), Telugu (WM IN), Tsonga (WM ZA), Malay (WM ID and Malaysian
> Wikimedians), Marathi (WM IN).
>
> The priorities for those languages should include (but likely not limited
> to):
> * Translation of MediaWiki messages should be 100%.
> * Those languages should be priorities for every document which should be
> translated. For example, ongoing Board elections; but also various Meta
> pages.
>

For some of these languages, I don't see that this makes sense, in terms of
investment versus impact, or in terms of putting the cart before the
horse.  Tsonga, for example, seems to have precisely one active editor[1]
-- no doubt, our colleague Dumisani Ndubane (CCed as a courtesy).  While it
is indeed his native language, it does not seem like a good investment of
effort to translate hundreds of pages and thousands of strings into Tsonga
when he (and, with overwhelming likelihood, any other literate speaker of
Tsonga) is also fluent (and educated in) English.  Xhosa, Hausa and Zulu
are in the same class[2][3][4].

The other languages you mention, on the other hand, already have
established, active communities.  We can indeed make more of an effort to
encourage greater participation by those communities (and thereby by
speakers of those languages) in international goings-on via increased
participation in volunteer translation, regular or semi-regular reporting
(so that it's not all one-way).  This is in fact generally done by some of
us whenever we are in contact with folks from those communities.

Crucially, I don't see that the problem lends itself to outside
"engineering".  If we want more interchange with, say, the Telugu
community, we should talk to it.  I know I do.


> * We should have the pool of literate people in those languages for various
> purposes, not just for translation. For example, if we want to create
> projects in languages of Pakistan, we should have a number of literate Urdu
> speakers, willing to help newcomers speaking Urdu as their L2 language.
>

Again, there already exists a community of dedicated contributors to the
Urdu Wikipedia[5] (apparently more from India than from Pakistan, no doubt
partially due to script issues[6]).  Some of you, particularly in the last
year, have been energetically mentoring newcomers and doing outreach
activities.  Our colleagues Nisar Ahmad Syed and Muzammiluddin Syed (CCed)
are two such volunteers.  Now, what, precisely, are you suggesting?

Cheers,

Asaf

[1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryTS.htm
[2] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryXH.htm
[3] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryHA.htm
[4] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryZU.htm
[5] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryUR.htm
[6] Urdu Wikipedia is configured to use the Naskh script (used in India)
rather than the Nasta'liq script (favored in Pakistan)
-- 
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Foundation 

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

[Gregory Varnum]

For reference, these are the languages which were prioritized for the
elections. Additional translation support was utilized to help with the
48-72 hour deadlines:

   1. العربية (ar)
   2. বাংলা (bn)
   3. Deutsch (de)
   4. español (es)
   5. فارسی (fa)
   6. français (fr)
   7. हिन्दी (hi)
   8. Bahasa Indonesia (id)
   9. italiano (it)
   10. 日本語 (ja)
   11. Nederlands (nl)
   12. português do Brasil (pt-br)
   13. русский (ru)
   14. Kiswahili (sw)
   15. Türkçe (tr)
   16. Tiếng Việt (vi)
   17. 中文 (zh)

-greg (User:Varnent)


On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Richard Symonds <
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

> Milos,
>
> The formatting has been stripped from the email because the list software
> doesn't like HTML, so the table at the bottom is illegible. Is it available
> elsewhere?
>
> Richard Symonds
> Wikimedia UK
> 0207 065 0992
>
> Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
> Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
> Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT.
> United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
> movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
> operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
>
> *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
> over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
>
> On 27 May 2015 at 22:04, Milos Rancic  wrote:
>
> > Below is the list of the languages sorted by the number of L2 speakers
> > (more than one million of them).
> >
> > L2 speakers appear in two occasions:
> > * First and important to us is about languages used for wider
> > communication. For example, French is L2 among educated people of West
> > Africa.
> > * The second type is related to the native languages in not so good
> > position (either dying or reviving). For example, English is L1 language
> of
> > the most of Native Americans, as well as Russian is L1 language of the
> most
> > of ethnicities of former Soviet Union, while their own languages are L2
> > ones. (They are important in other cases, but not for this purpose.)
> >
> > I omitted English (there is no sense, as we are communicating in English
> > and English is default for all the localization) and few spoken languages
> > (our content is [mostly] written).
> >
> > I also removed some languages which belong to the second category (Irish
> > Gaelic and Scots, for example), but it could be the case that some of the
> > languages from the list belong to that category, as well (though I am
> > pretty sure they don't).
> >
> > There are languages inside of this list with well developed Wikimedia
> > projects and without particular need to promote work on Wikimedia
> projects
> > among them: French, Spanish and German are the examples. There is no
> > Russian inside of the list, as it's usually L1 language, as mentioned
> > above, but it belongs to the category of the languages with well
> developed
> > Wikimedia projects.
> >
> > There are also languages spoken in countries with low level of internet
> > access and issues much more important than writing an encyclopedia, like
> > Congo Swahili is. Those are the areas not yet ready even for the projects
> > like OLPC is and we don't have a lot to do there.
> >
> > But there are a number of languages in between with active chapter(s) or
> > user group(s) inside of relevant countries. Those languages should be the
> > priority in promotion collaboration.
> >
> > They are: Arabic (Arabic user groups), Indonesian (WM ID), Hindi (WM IN),
> > Urdu (Pakistani user group), Thai (Thailand UG), Bengali (WM BD), Zulu
> (WM
> > ZA), Hausa (West African user groups), Xhosa (WM ZA), Afrikaans (WM ZA),
> > Kannada (WM IN), Telugu (WM IN), Tsonga (WM ZA), Malay (WM ID and
> Malaysian
> > Wikimedians), Marathi (WM IN).
> >
> > The priorities for those languages should include (but likely not limited
> > to):
> > * Translation of MediaWiki messages should be 100%.
> > * Those languages should be priorities for every document which should be
> > translated. For example, ongoing Board elections; but also various Meta
> > pages.
> > * We should have the pool of literate people in those languages for
> various
> > purposes, not just for translation. For example, if we want to create
> > projects in languages of Pakistan, we should have a number of literate
> Urdu
> > speakers, willing to help newcomers speaking Urdu as their L2 language.
> >
> > Will be back with other languages-related data :)
> >
> >
> > LanguageCodeL1 speakersL2 speakersStandard
> > Arabicarb206,000,000246,000,000Mandarin
> >
> Chinesecmn847,808,270178,000,000Indonesianind23,200,480140,000,000Hindihin
> > 260,333,620120,000,000Spanishspa398,931,84096,990,000Urduurd64,035,800
> >
> >
> 94,000,000Frenchfra75,916,15087,000,000Thaitha20,396,93040,000,000Bengaliben
> >
> >
> 189,261,20019,200,000Zuluzul11,969,10015,700,000Hausahau25,109,00015,000,000
> > Xh

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

[Richard Symonds]

Milos,

The formatting has been stripped from the email because the list software
doesn't like HTML, so the table at the bottom is illegible. Is it available
elsewhere?

Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
0207 065 0992

Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT.
United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).

*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*

On 27 May 2015 at 22:04, Milos Rancic  wrote:

> Below is the list of the languages sorted by the number of L2 speakers
> (more than one million of them).
>
> L2 speakers appear in two occasions:
> * First and important to us is about languages used for wider
> communication. For example, French is L2 among educated people of West
> Africa.
> * The second type is related to the native languages in not so good
> position (either dying or reviving). For example, English is L1 language of
> the most of Native Americans, as well as Russian is L1 language of the most
> of ethnicities of former Soviet Union, while their own languages are L2
> ones. (They are important in other cases, but not for this purpose.)
>
> I omitted English (there is no sense, as we are communicating in English
> and English is default for all the localization) and few spoken languages
> (our content is [mostly] written).
>
> I also removed some languages which belong to the second category (Irish
> Gaelic and Scots, for example), but it could be the case that some of the
> languages from the list belong to that category, as well (though I am
> pretty sure they don't).
>
> There are languages inside of this list with well developed Wikimedia
> projects and without particular need to promote work on Wikimedia projects
> among them: French, Spanish and German are the examples. There is no
> Russian inside of the list, as it's usually L1 language, as mentioned
> above, but it belongs to the category of the languages with well developed
> Wikimedia projects.
>
> There are also languages spoken in countries with low level of internet
> access and issues much more important than writing an encyclopedia, like
> Congo Swahili is. Those are the areas not yet ready even for the projects
> like OLPC is and we don't have a lot to do there.
>
> But there are a number of languages in between with active chapter(s) or
> user group(s) inside of relevant countries. Those languages should be the
> priority in promotion collaboration.
>
> They are: Arabic (Arabic user groups), Indonesian (WM ID), Hindi (WM IN),
> Urdu (Pakistani user group), Thai (Thailand UG), Bengali (WM BD), Zulu (WM
> ZA), Hausa (West African user groups), Xhosa (WM ZA), Afrikaans (WM ZA),
> Kannada (WM IN), Telugu (WM IN), Tsonga (WM ZA), Malay (WM ID and Malaysian
> Wikimedians), Marathi (WM IN).
>
> The priorities for those languages should include (but likely not limited
> to):
> * Translation of MediaWiki messages should be 100%.
> * Those languages should be priorities for every document which should be
> translated. For example, ongoing Board elections; but also various Meta
> pages.
> * We should have the pool of literate people in those languages for various
> purposes, not just for translation. For example, if we want to create
> projects in languages of Pakistan, we should have a number of literate Urdu
> speakers, willing to help newcomers speaking Urdu as their L2 language.
>
> Will be back with other languages-related data :)
>
>
> LanguageCodeL1 speakersL2 speakersStandard
> Arabicarb206,000,000246,000,000Mandarin
> Chinesecmn847,808,270178,000,000Indonesianind23,200,480140,000,000Hindihin
> 260,333,620120,000,000Spanishspa398,931,84096,990,000Urduurd64,035,800
>
> 94,000,000Frenchfra75,916,15087,000,000Thaitha20,396,93040,000,000Bengaliben
>
> 189,261,20019,200,000Zuluzul11,969,10015,700,000Hausahau25,109,00015,000,000
> Xhosaxho8,177,30011,000,000Afrikaansafr7,096,81010,300,000Bamanankanbam
> 4,072,04010,000,000Burmesemya32,035,30010,000,000Congo Swahiliswc1,000
> 9,100,000Northern Sothonso4,631,0009,100,000Kannadakan37,739,0409,000,000
> Germandeu78,093,9808,000,000Tamiltam68,776,4608,000,000Juladyu2,550,000
> 7,000,000Lingalalin2,141,3007,000,000Koongokng5,016,5005,000,000Telugutel
> 74,049,0005,000,000Ibibioibb1,500,0004,500,000Tok Pisintpi122,0004,000,000
> Kriokri495,6004,000,000Amharicamh21,811,6004,000,000Bangalabxg~0
> 3,500,000Tsongatso4,009,0003,400,000Malayzlm15,848,5003,000,000Marathimar
>
> 71,780,6603,000,000Sinhalasin15,613,9802,000,000Efikefi405,2602,000,000Duala
> dua87,7002,000,000Yorubayor19,380,8002,000,000Shonasna10,741,7001,800,000
> Vendaven1,294,0001,700,000Sangosag404,0001,600,000Manado Malayxmm850,000
> 1,5

[Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

[Milos Rancic]

Below is the list of the languages sorted by the number of L2 speakers
(more than one million of them).

L2 speakers appear in two occasions:
* First and important to us is about languages used for wider
communication. For example, French is L2 among educated people of West
Africa.
* The second type is related to the native languages in not so good
position (either dying or reviving). For example, English is L1 language of
the most of Native Americans, as well as Russian is L1 language of the most
of ethnicities of former Soviet Union, while their own languages are L2
ones. (They are important in other cases, but not for this purpose.)

I omitted English (there is no sense, as we are communicating in English
and English is default for all the localization) and few spoken languages
(our content is [mostly] written).

I also removed some languages which belong to the second category (Irish
Gaelic and Scots, for example), but it could be the case that some of the
languages from the list belong to that category, as well (though I am
pretty sure they don't).

There are languages inside of this list with well developed Wikimedia
projects and without particular need to promote work on Wikimedia projects
among them: French, Spanish and German are the examples. There is no
Russian inside of the list, as it's usually L1 language, as mentioned
above, but it belongs to the category of the languages with well developed
Wikimedia projects.

There are also languages spoken in countries with low level of internet
access and issues much more important than writing an encyclopedia, like
Congo Swahili is. Those are the areas not yet ready even for the projects
like OLPC is and we don't have a lot to do there.

But there are a number of languages in between with active chapter(s) or
user group(s) inside of relevant countries. Those languages should be the
priority in promotion collaboration.

They are: Arabic (Arabic user groups), Indonesian (WM ID), Hindi (WM IN),
Urdu (Pakistani user group), Thai (Thailand UG), Bengali (WM BD), Zulu (WM
ZA), Hausa (West African user groups), Xhosa (WM ZA), Afrikaans (WM ZA),
Kannada (WM IN), Telugu (WM IN), Tsonga (WM ZA), Malay (WM ID and Malaysian
Wikimedians), Marathi (WM IN).

The priorities for those languages should include (but likely not limited
to):
* Translation of MediaWiki messages should be 100%.
* Those languages should be priorities for every document which should be
translated. For example, ongoing Board elections; but also various Meta
pages.
* We should have the pool of literate people in those languages for various
purposes, not just for translation. For example, if we want to create
projects in languages of Pakistan, we should have a number of literate Urdu
speakers, willing to help newcomers speaking Urdu as their L2 language.

Will be back with other languages-related data :)


LanguageCodeL1 speakersL2 speakersStandard
Arabicarb206,000,000246,000,000Mandarin
Chinesecmn847,808,270178,000,000Indonesianind23,200,480140,000,000Hindihin
260,333,620120,000,000Spanishspa398,931,84096,990,000Urduurd64,035,800
94,000,000Frenchfra75,916,15087,000,000Thaitha20,396,93040,000,000Bengaliben
189,261,20019,200,000Zuluzul11,969,10015,700,000Hausahau25,109,00015,000,000
Xhosaxho8,177,30011,000,000Afrikaansafr7,096,81010,300,000Bamanankanbam
4,072,04010,000,000Burmesemya32,035,30010,000,000Congo Swahiliswc1,000
9,100,000Northern Sothonso4,631,0009,100,000Kannadakan37,739,0409,000,000
Germandeu78,093,9808,000,000Tamiltam68,776,4608,000,000Juladyu2,550,000
7,000,000Lingalalin2,141,3007,000,000Koongokng5,016,5005,000,000Telugutel
74,049,0005,000,000Ibibioibb1,500,0004,500,000Tok Pisintpi122,0004,000,000
Kriokri495,6004,000,000Amharicamh21,811,6004,000,000Bangalabxg~0
3,500,000Tsongatso4,009,0003,400,000Malayzlm15,848,5003,000,000Marathimar
71,780,6603,000,000Sinhalasin15,613,9802,000,000Efikefi405,2602,000,000Duala
dua87,7002,000,000Yorubayor19,380,8002,000,000Shonasna10,741,7001,800,000
Vendaven1,294,0001,700,000Sangosag404,0001,600,000Manado Malayxmm850,000
1,500,000Sylhetisyl10,300,0001,500,000Ambonese Malayabs245,0201,400,000
Ndebelenbl1,090,0001,400,000Rakhinerki1,000,0001,020,000Gandalug4,130,000
1,000,000Akanaka8,314,6001,000,000Khmerkhm14,224,5001,000,000
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