Sentence examples for million speakers from inspiring English sources

The largest gaps are those of Hindu-Urdu (about 490 million speakers worldwide) and Arabic (280 million speakers worldwide).

In Portugal, the language's country of origin, there are more than 10 million speakers.

There are nearly 20 million speakers of Igboid languages in southeastern Nigeria.

There were some 5.8 million speakers in the early 21st century.

In the early 21st century Telugu had more than 75 million speakers.

It includes the Akan language cluster (more than eight million speakers); the Anyi and Baule languages (almost three million speakers), mostly in Côte d'Ivoire; and the Guang language cluster (about half a million speakers), mostly in Ghana.

Many of the numerous languages of Ethiopia are Semitic, including Amharic (with some 17 million speakers) and, in the north, Tigrinya (some 5.8 million speakers) and Tigré (more than 1 million speakers).

With nearly 40 million speakers, Spanish is the country's second-most-common language.

The Songhai are composed of many related groups, the most important of which are the Zarma, with more than two million speakers.

At its peak, it had as many as two million speakers, and produced its own rich literature, including more than fifteen thousand books.

The Shawi, he told me, number "about twenty thousand, but I give their language better odds than Quechua, which has ten million speakers".