List of Wikipedias by speakers per article

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This page contains a list of Wikipedias sorted by the number of speakers per article.[1]

These tables were generated on 22 September 2009.

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[edit] 100 000+ articles

No. Language Language (local) Wiki Articles Speakers [1] Speakers per article
1 Volapük Volapük vo 118,782 30 0.0
2 Esperanto Esperanto eo 120,051 2,000,000 16.8
3 Norwegian Norsk no 228,978 4,300,000 18.8
4 Finnish Suomi fi 216,462 5,232,728 24.2
5 Swedish Svenska sv 330,030 9,000,000 27.3
6 Dutch Nederlands nl 559,772 20,000,000 35.7
7 Catalan Català ca 220,255 7,500,000 37.5
8 Slovak Slovenčina sk 110,044 5,011,120 45.5
9 Danish Dansk da 115,485 5,299,756 45.9
10 Polish Polski pl 636,873 44,000,000 69.1
11 Czech Čeština cs 137,122 11,525,089 84.0
12 Hungarian Magyar hu 141,366 13,611,600 96.3
13 Italian Italiano it 607,913 62,000,000 102.0
14 German Deutsch de 958,406 128,000,000 133.6
15 Romanian Română ro 131,158 23,498,367 179.2
16 English English en 3,039,051 600,000,000 197.4
17 French Français fr 852,938 172,000,000 201.7
18 Japanese 日本語 ja 618,443 126,000,000 203.7
19 Ukrainian Українська uk 161,155 39,441,842 244.7
20 Portuguese Português pt 509,037 230,000,000 451.8
21 Turkish Türkçe tr 136,042 75,000,000 551.3
22 Korean 한국어 ko 113,361 67,019,690 591.2
23 Russian Русский ru 434,390 277,000,000 637.7
24 Vietnamese Tiếng Việt vi 100,714 86,000,000 853.9
25 Spanish Español es 514,241 460,000,000 894.5
26 Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia id 111,936 164,000,000 1,465.1
27 Arabic العربية ar 102,564 255,000,000 2,486.3
28 Chinese 中文 zh 272,739 885,000,000 3,244.9

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No. Language Language (local) Wiki Articles Speakers [1] Speakers per article
1 Ido Ido io 17,648 2,500 0.1
2 Aragonese Aragonés an 16,917 31,000 1.8
3 Nynorsk Nynorsk nn 51,019 500,000 9.8
4 Icelandic Íslenska is 26,103 300,000 11.5
5 Luxembourgish Lëtzebuergesch lb 27,619 390,618 14.1
6 Estonian Eesti et 67,412 1,075,497 16.0
7 Breton Brezhoneg br 29,412 532,722 18.1
8 Bishnupriya Manipuri ইমার ঠার/বিষ্ণুপ্রি bpy 23,417 450,000 19.2
9 Welsh Cymraeg cy 24,654 536,258 21.8
10 Newar / Nepal Bhasa नेपाल भाषा new 54,982 1,250,000 22.7
11 Ripuarian Ripoarisch ksh 10,612 250,000 23.6
12 Basque Euskara eu 43,339 1,033,900 23.9
13 Slovenian Slovenščina sl 79,599 1,984,775 24.9
14 Lithuanian Lietuvių lt 93,492 3,125,281 33.4
15 Samogitian Žemaitėška bat-smg 12,000 500,000 41.7
16 Asturian Asturianu ast 12,409 550,000 44.3
17 Hebrew עברית he 96,639 5,055,000 52.3
18 West Frisian Frysk fy 13,016 700,000 53.8
19 Occitan Occitan oc 19,393 1,100,000 56.7
20 Macedonian Македонски mk 34,755 2,113,170 60.8
21 Galician Galego gl 51,151 3,188,400 62.3
22 Latvian Latviešu lv 23,537 1,543,844 65.6
23 Croatian Hrvatski hr 67,717 6,214,643 91.8
24 Bosnian Bosanski bs 27,688 2,700,000 97.5
25 Walloon Walon wa 11,330 1,120,000 98.9
26 Bulgarian Български bg 79,602 8,954,811 112.5
27 Serbian Српски sr 95,442 11,144,758 116.8
28 Georgian ქართული ka 33,731 4,178,604 123.9
29 Chuvash Чăваш cv 10,458 1,330,000 127.2
30 Piedmontese Piemontèis pms 21,972 3,106,620 141.4
31 Haitian Kreyòl ayisyen ht 51,254 7,389,066 144.2
32 Waray-Waray Winaray wa 10,768 2,570,000 238.7
33 Albanian Shqip sq 24,464 6,000,000 245.3
34 Sicilian Sicilianu scn 14,822 4,832,520 326.0
35 Greek Ελληνικά el 45,098 17,000,000 377.0
36 Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa) Беларуская (тарашкевіца) be-x-old 21,518 9,081,102 422.0
37 Malay Bahasa Melayu ms 49,515 21,000,000 424.1
38 Afrikaans Afrikaans af 12,956 5,965,879 460.5
39 Belarusian Беларуская be 17,007 9,081,102 534.0
40 Neapolitan Nnapulitano nap 13,073 7,500,000 573.7
41 Low Saxon Plattdüütsch nds 14,916 10,000,000 670.4
42 Cebuano Sinugboanong Binisaya ceb 40,481 31,000,000 765.8
43 Serbo-Croatian Srpskohrvatski / Српскохрватски sh 25,057 21,000,000 838.1
44 Quechua Runa Simi qu 10,779 10,400,000 964.8
45 Azeri Azərbaycan az 26,941 31,400,000 1,165.5
46 Thai ไทย th 50,647 60,000,000 1,184.7
47 Kurdish Kurdî / كوردی ku 12,249 15,825,505 1,292.0
48 Persian فارسی fa 68,494 110,000,000 1,606.0
49 Telugu తెలుగు te 43,672 75,000,000 1,717.3
50 Sundanese Basa Sunda su 14,451 27,000,000 1,868.4
51 Marathi मराठी mr 24,532 71,000,000 2,894.2
52 Malayalam മലയാളം ml 10,964 35,757,100 3,261.3
53 Swahili Kiswahili sw 14,113 50,000,000 3,542.8
54 Javanese Basa Jawa jv 20,843 75,500,000 3,622.3
55 Tagalog Tagalog tl 23,231 86,000,000 3,701.9
56 Tamil தமிழ் ta 19,335 74,000,000 3,827.3
57 Cantonese 粵語 zh-yue 11,694 64,000,000 5,472.9
58 Urdu اردو ur 11,195 104,000,000 9,289.9
59 Hindi हिन्दी hi 50,680 490,000,000 9,668.5
60 Bengali বাংলা bn 20,357 215,000,000 10,561.5
x Simple English Simple English simple 56,486  ?  ?
x Latin Latina la 31,200  ?  ?

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  1. a b c Including first and second language speakers. Main source: http://www.ethnologue.com and Wikipedia. DISCLAIMER: Some data may be underestimated or overestimated.