Languages by number of native speakers
A Peakle category. Higher = more native speakers. Name answers one at a time, each one higher than the last. New to the game? Read how to play.
When it was played
- Puzzle #15, October 23, 2026 · replay in the archive
The numbers
- 29 answers count.
- The longest possible climb is 22 steps, because some answers are tied and a tie ends the climb.
How it's counted
- Native speakers in millions, from Ethnologue as listed on Wikipedia. Only first-language speakers count, so English is lower than you might expect.
Source
Wikipedia: List of languages by number of native speakers (Ethnologue), as of October 14, 2026.
Every answer
Alphabetical. Their values stay a secret, so the climb is still worth replaying.
Bengali · Bhojpuri · Egyptian Arabic · English · French · Gujarati · Hausa · Hindi · Indonesian · Iranian Persian · Italian · Japanese · Javanese · Korean · Levantine Arabic · Mandarin Chinese · Marathi · Portuguese · Russian · Spanish · Standard German · Tamil · Telugu · Turkish · Urdu · Vietnamese · Western Punjabi · Wu Chinese · Yue Chinese