List of languages by number of speakers in Europe

This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only.

List

Rank	Name	Native speakers	Total speakers
1	Russian	106,000,000[1]	160,000,000[1]
2	German	97,000,000[2]	170,000,000[3]
3	French	81,000,000[4]	210,000,000[3]
4	Italian	65,000,000[5]	82,000,000[3]
5	English	63,000,000[6]	260,000,000[3]
6	Spanish	47,000,000[7]	176,000,000[3]
7	Polish	38,500,000[8]
8	Ukrainian	32,600,000[9]
9	Romanian	24,000,000[10]	28,000,000[11]
10	Dutch	22,000,000[12]
11[a]	Serbo-Croatian	19,000,000[13]
11	Turkish	15,752,673[14]
12	Bavarian	14,000,000[15]
13	Greek	13,500,000[16]
14	Hungarian	13,000,000[17]
15	Swedish	11,100,000[18]	13,280,000[18]
16	Czech	10,600,000[19]
17	Portuguese	10,000,000[20]	11,000,000[21]
17	Catalan	10,000,000[22]
18	Serbian	9,000,000[23]
19	Bulgarian	7,800,000[24]
20	Albanian Arbëresh Arvanitika	5,367,000[25] 5,877,100[26] (Balkans)
21	Neapolitan	5,700,000[27]
22	Croatian	5,600,000[28]
23	Danish	5,500,000[29]
24	Finnish	5,400,000[30]
25	Norwegian	5,200,000[31]
	Slovak	5,200,000[32]
27	Swiss German	5,000,000[33]
28	Mainfränkisch	4,900,000[34]
29	Sicilian	4,700,000[35]
30	Tatar	4,300,000[36]
31	Venetian	3,800,000[37]
32	Lombard	3,600,000[38]
33	Belarusian	3,300,000[39]
34	Lithuanian	3,000,000[40]
35	Bosnian	2,500,000[41]
36	Galician	2,400,000[42]
37	Slovene	2,100,000[43]
38	Upper Saxon	2,000,000[44]
39	Irish	1,873,997 (census)[45] 240,000[46]
40	Latvian	1,750,000[47]
43	Macedonian	1,600,000[48]
	Piedmontese	1,600,000[49]
42	Romani	1,500,000[50]
43	Chechen	1,400,000[51]
45	Sardinian	1,350,000[52]
46	Limburgish	1,300,000 (2001)[53]
47	Bashkir	1,221,000[54]
48	Chuvash	1,100,000[55]
49	Estonian	1,165,400[56]
50	Low German (Low Saxon)	1,000,000[57]	2,600,000[57]
	Kazakh	1,000,000[58]
	Palatinate German	1,000,000[59]
53	Ripuarian (Platt)	900,000[60]
54	Swabian German	820,000[61]
55	Avar	760,000
56	Basque	750,000[62]
57	Friulan	600,000[63]
	Walloon	600,000[64]
	Yiddish	600,000[65]
60	Welsh	538,000[66] 899,500[67]	750,000[68]
61	Kabardian	530,000[69]
62	Silesian	522,000[70]
63	Maltese	520,000[71]
64	Azerbaijani	500,000[72]
	Ligurian	500,000[73]
	Mari	500,000[74]
	Occitan	500,000[75]
68	Crimean Tatar	480,000[76]
69	Frisian	470,000[77]
70	Kumyk	450,000[78]
	Ossetian	450,000[79]
72	Rhaeto-Romance	370,000[80]
73	Asturian (Astur-Leonese)	351,791[81]	641,502[81]
74	Udmurt	340,000[82]
75	Luxembourgish	336,000[83]	386,000[83]
76	Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino)	320,000[84]	few[85]
77	Icelandic	330,000[86]
78	Karachay-Balkar	300,000[87]
	Ingush	300,000[88]
80	Montenegrin	240,700[89]
81	Komi	220,000[90]
	Zeelandic	220,000[91]
83	Breton	206,000[92]
84	Extremaduran	200,000[93]
	Picard	200,000[94]
86	Franco-Provençal (Arpitan)	140,000[95]
	Gagauz	140,000[96]
87	Tabasaran	126,900[97]
88	Erzya	120,000[98]
89	Adyghe	117,500[99]
90	Aromanian	114,000[100]
91	Scots	110,000[101]
92	Võro	87,000[102]
93	Kalmyk	80,500[103]
94	Faroese	66,150[104]
95	Scottish Gaelic	57,000[105]
96	Norman	50,000[106]
	Kashubian	50,000[107]
98	Abaza	49,800[108]
99	Karelian	36,000[109]
100	Corsican	30,000[110]	125,000[110]
	Tat	30,000[111]
102	Aragonese	25,000[112]	55,000[113]
103	Sami	23,000[114]
104	Walser German	20,000[115]
	Sorbian (Wendish)	20,000[116]
	Italiot Greek	20,000 native speakers in 1981[117]	50,000
107	Yenish	16,000[118]
108	Mirandese	15,000[119]
109	Silesian German	11,000[120]
110	Nenets	4,000[121]
111	Megleno-Romanian	3,000[122]
112	Kven	2,000-8,000
113	Moksha	2,000[123]
	Elfdalian	2,000
115	Vepsian	1,640[124]
116	Istro-Romanian	1,100[125]
117	Istriot	900[126]
118	Cornish	557[127]
119	Cimbrian	400[128]
120	Judeo-Italian	250[129]
121	Manx	230[130]	2,300[131]
122	Ingrian	120[132]
123	Wymysorys	less than 20	70[133]
124	Latin	dead	only several dozen and definitely less than 100[134]
unranked	Emilian
	Romagnol

Notes

1. In linguistics, Serbo-Croatian is synonymous with standardised varieties of the Shtokavian dialect, which forms the basis of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian standard languages; thus these national forms are largely mutually intelligible varieties of one pluricentric language. Other Serbo-Croatian dialects, Chakavian, Kajkavian and Torlak, are also considered separate languages on terms of mutual intelligibility by linguists.