User:Jon Harald Søby/Missing Wikipedias
This is a list of large languages that do not have a Wikipedia. Some languages may be included in other closely-related language Wikipedias, but this needs verification. Numbers taken from English Wikipedia article List of languages by number of native speakers.
More than one million speakers[edit]
| ISO 639-3 | Language name (Request/Incubator link) |
Language family | Number of speakers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| awa | Awadhi |
Indo-European (Indo-Aryan) | 38,000,000 | Sometimes considered part of Hindi (hi:) |
| hsn | Xiang request / inubator |
Sino-Tibetan (Chinese) | 36,000,000 | Chinese variety |
| mai | Maithili request / incubator |
Indo-European (Indo-Aryan) | 35,000,000 | Sometimes considered part of Bihari (bh:) |
| mwr | Marwari |
Indo-European (Indo-Aryan) | 31,000,000 | Macrolanguage, also |
| rkt | Rangpuri |
Indo-European (Indo-Aryan) | 15,000,000 | |
| mad | Madurese |
Austronesian | 14,000,000 | |
| mnp | Min Bei |
Sino-Tibetan (Chinese) | 10,300,000 | Chinese variety |
| lua | Luba-Kasai |
Niger-Congo (Bantu) | 9,500,000 | |
| vmw | Makhuwa |
Niger-Congo (Bantu) | 8,000,000 | |
| sat | Santali |
Austro-Asiatic | 6,050,000 | |
| suk | Sukuma |
Niger-Congo (Bantu) | 5,430,000 | |
| mos | Mossi |
Niger-Congo (Gur) | 5,000,000 | |
| hil | Hiligaynon request / incubator |
Austronesian | 5,800,000 | |
| min | Minangkabau request / incubator |
Austronesian | 5,500,000 |
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