User:Gatewaycat/languages

Articles that may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards
 * List of languages by number of native speakers
 * List of languages by total number of speakers
 * Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages
 * Ethnologue

Verifiability


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