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| { | |
| "af": { | |
| "name": "Afrikaans", | |
| "speakers": 15200000 | |
| }, | |
| "am": { | |
| "name": "Amharic", | |
| "speakers": 25800000 | |
| }, | |
| "sq": { | |
| "name": "Albanian", | |
| "speakers": 7500000 | |
| }, | |
| "ar": { | |
| "name": "Arabic", | |
| "speakers": 425000000 | |
| }, | |
| "hy": { | |
| "name": "Armenian", | |
| "speakers": 6400000 | |
| }, | |
| "az": { | |
| "name": "Azerbaijani", | |
| "speakers": 28000000 | |
| }, | |
| "eu": { | |
| "name": "Basque", | |
| "speakers": 720000 | |
| }, | |
| "be": { | |
| "name": "Belarusian", | |
| "speakers": 8600000 | |
| }, | |
| "bn": { | |
| "name": "Bengali", | |
| "speakers": 250000000 | |
| }, | |
| "bs": { | |
| "name": "Bosnian", | |
| "speakers": 3500000 | |
| }, | |
| "bg": { | |
| "name": "Bulgarian", | |
| "speakers": 9100000 | |
| }, | |
| "ca": { | |
| "name": "Catalan", | |
| "speakers": 11500000 | |
| }, | |
| "ceb": { | |
| "name": "Cebuano", | |
| "speakers": 21000000 | |
| }, | |
| "ny": { | |
| "name": "Chichewa", | |
| "speakers": 12000000 | |
| }, | |
| "zh": { | |
| "name": "Chinese", | |
| "speakers": 1026000000 | |
| }, | |
| "co": { | |
| "name": "Corsican", | |
| "speakers": 200000 | |
| }, | |
| "hr": { | |
| "name": "Croatian", | |
| "speakers": 16000000 | |
| }, | |
| "cs": { | |
| "name": "Czech", | |
| "speakers": 9500000 | |
| }, | |
| "da": { | |
| "name": "Danish", | |
| "speakers": 5600000 | |
| }, | |
| "nl": { | |
| "name": "Dutch", | |
| "speakers": 22000000 | |
| }, | |
| "sjn": { | |
| "name": "Elvish", | |
| "speakers": 1200000 | |
| }, | |
| "en": { | |
| "name": "English", | |
| "speakers": 765000000 | |
| }, | |
| "eo": { | |
| "name": "Esperanto", | |
| "speakers": 2000000 | |
| }, | |
| "et": { | |
| "name": "Estonian", | |
| "speakers": 1200000 | |
| }, | |
| "tl": { | |
| "name": "Filipino", | |
| "speakers": 25000000 | |
| }, | |
| "fo": { | |
| "name": "Faroese", | |
| "speakers": null | |
| }, | |
| "fj": { | |
| "name": "Fijian", | |
| "speakers": 5000000 | |
| }, | |
| "fi": { | |
| "name": "Finnish", | |
| "speakers": 5000000 | |
| }, | |
| "fr": { | |
| "name": "French", | |
| "speakers": 68500000 | |
| }, | |
| "fy": { | |
| "name": "Frisian", | |
| "speakers": 470000 | |
| }, | |
| "gl": { | |
| "name": "Galician", | |
| "speakers": 2400000 | |
| }, | |
| "ka": { | |
| "name": "Georgian", | |
| "speakers": 4300000 | |
| }, | |
| "de": { | |
| "name": "German", | |
| "speakers": 111800000 | |
| }, | |
| "el": { | |
| "name": "Greek", | |
| "speakers": 13000000 | |
| }, | |
| "gu": { | |
| "name": "Gujarati", | |
| "speakers": 46600000 | |
| }, | |
| "haw": { | |
| "name": "Hawaiian", | |
| "speakers": 2000 | |
| }, | |
| "ht": { | |
| "name": "Haitian Creole", | |
| "speakers": 7700000 | |
| }, | |
| "ha": { | |
| "name": "Hausa", | |
| "speakers": 40000000 | |
| }, | |
| "he": { | |
| "name": "Hebrew", | |
| "speakers": 5300000 | |
| }, | |
| "hi": { | |
| "name": "Hindi", | |
| "speakers": 12500000 | |
| }, | |
| "hmn": { | |
| "name": "Hmong", | |
| "speakers": 4000000 | |
| }, | |
| "hu": { | |
| "name": "Hungarian", | |
| "speakers": 12500000 | |
| }, | |
| "is": { | |
| "name": "Icelandic", | |
| "speakers": 330000 | |
| }, | |
| "ig": { | |
| "name": "Igbo", | |
| "speakers": 18000000 | |
| }, | |
| "id": { | |
| "name": "Indonesian", | |
| "speakers": 23000000 | |
| }, | |
| "iu": { | |
| "name": "Inuktitut", | |
| "speakers": 34000 | |
| }, | |
| "iku": { | |
| "name": "Inuinnaqtun", | |
| "speakers": 410 | |
| }, | |
| "ga": { | |
| "name": "Irish", | |
| "speakers": 1000000 | |
| }, | |
| "it": { | |
| "name": "Italian", | |
| "speakers": 61100000 | |
| }, | |
| "ja": { | |
| "name": "Japanese", | |
| "speakers": 123000000 | |
| }, | |
| "jw": { | |
| "name": "Javanese", | |
| "speakers": 84300000 | |
| }, | |
| "kk": { | |
| "name": "qazaq tili", | |
| "speakers": 11000000 | |
| }, | |
| "kn": { | |
| "name": "Kannada", | |
| "speakers": 46700000 | |
| }, | |
| "km": { | |
| "name": "Khmer", | |
| "speakers": 16000000 | |
| }, | |
| "ko": { | |
| "name": "Korean", | |
| "speakers": 66400000 | |
| }, | |
| "kok": { | |
| "name": "Konkani", | |
| "speakers": 7400000 | |
| }, | |
| "ky": { | |
| "name": "Кyrgyz", | |
| "speakers": 4300000 | |
| }, | |
| "ku": { | |
| "name": "Kurdish", | |
| "speakers": 30000000 | |
| }, | |
| "ckb": { | |
| "name": "Central Kurdish", | |
| "speakers": 7250000 | |
| }, | |
| "sdh": { | |
| "name": "Southern Kurdish", | |
| "speakers": 5390000 | |
| }, | |
| "lo": { | |
| "name": "Lao", | |
| "speakers": 20000000 | |
| }, | |
| "lv": { | |
| "name": "Latvian", | |
| "speakers": 1700000 | |
| }, | |
| "lt": { | |
| "name": "Lithuanian", | |
| "speakers": 3000000 | |
| }, | |
| "lb": { | |
| "name": "Luxembourgish", | |
| "speakers": 390000 | |
| }, | |
| "mk": { | |
| "name": "Macedonian", | |
| "speakers": 2500000 | |
| }, | |
| "mg": { | |
| "name": "Malagasy", | |
| "speakers": 18000000 | |
| }, | |
| "ms": { | |
| "name": "Malay", | |
| "speakers": 59400000 | |
| }, | |
| "ml": { | |
| "name": "Malayalam", | |
| "speakers": 38000000 | |
| }, | |
| "mt": { | |
| "name": "Maltese", | |
| "speakers": 520000 | |
| }, | |
| "mr": { | |
| "name": "Marathi", | |
| "speakers": 71800000 | |
| }, | |
| "mn": { | |
| "name": "Mongolian", | |
| "speakers": 5700000 | |
| }, | |
| "mi": { | |
| "name": "Māori", | |
| "speakers": 60000 | |
| }, | |
| "my": { | |
| "name": "Burmese", | |
| "speakers": 42900000 | |
| }, | |
| "ne": { | |
| "name": "Nepali", | |
| "speakers": 14000000 | |
| }, | |
| "no": { | |
| "name": "Norwegian", | |
| "speakers": 5000000 | |
| }, | |
| "pap": { | |
| "name": "Papiamento", | |
| "speakers": 260000 | |
| }, | |
| "fa": { | |
| "name": "Persian", | |
| "speakers": 56600000 | |
| }, | |
| "pl": { | |
| "name": "Polish", | |
| "speakers": 39000000 | |
| }, | |
| "pt": { | |
| "name": "Portuguese", | |
| "speakers": 217000000 | |
| }, | |
| "pa": { | |
| "name": "Punjabi", | |
| "speakers": 29500000 | |
| }, | |
| "ps": { | |
| "name": "Pashto", | |
| "speakers": 60000000 | |
| }, | |
| "otq": { | |
| "name": "Hñohño", | |
| "speakers": 260000 | |
| }, | |
| "ro": { | |
| "name": "Romanian", | |
| "speakers": 23000000 | |
| }, | |
| "ru": { | |
| "name": "Russian", | |
| "speakers": 272000000 | |
| }, | |
| "sm": { | |
| "name": "Samoan", | |
| "speakers": 510000 | |
| }, | |
| "gd": { | |
| "name": "Scottish Gaelic", | |
| "speakers": 87000 | |
| }, | |
| "sr": { | |
| "name": "Serbian", | |
| "speakers": 16000000 | |
| }, | |
| "sr-LA": { | |
| "name": "Serbian", | |
| "speakers": 16000000 | |
| }, | |
| "sd": { | |
| "name": "Sindhi", | |
| "speakers": 75000000 | |
| }, | |
| "si": { | |
| "name": "Sinhalese", | |
| "speakers": 16000000 | |
| }, | |
| "sk": { | |
| "name": "Slovak", | |
| "speakers": 5000000 | |
| }, | |
| "sl": { | |
| "name": "Slovenian", | |
| "speakers": 2500000 | |
| }, | |
| "sn": { | |
| "name": "Slovenian", | |
| "speakers": 2500000 | |
| }, | |
| "st": { | |
| "name": "Sotho", | |
| "speakers": 5600000 | |
| }, | |
| "so": { | |
| "name": "Somali", | |
| "speakers": 14000000 | |
| }, | |
| "es": { | |
| "name": "Spanish", | |
| "speakers": 466000000 | |
| }, | |
| "su": { | |
| "name": "Sundanese", | |
| "speakers": 38000000 | |
| }, | |
| "sw": { | |
| "name": "Swahili", | |
| "speakers": 140000000 | |
| }, | |
| "sv": { | |
| "name": "Swedish", | |
| "speakers": 8300000 | |
| }, | |
| "ty": { | |
| "name": "Tahitian", | |
| "speakers": 68000 | |
| }, | |
| "ta": { | |
| "name": "Tamil", | |
| "speakers": 76800000 | |
| }, | |
| "tg": { | |
| "name": "Tajik", | |
| "speakers": 8400000 | |
| }, | |
| "te": { | |
| "name": "Telugu", | |
| "speakers": 79000000 | |
| }, | |
| "th": { | |
| "name": "Thai", | |
| "speakers": 60000000 | |
| }, | |
| "bo": { | |
| "name": "Tibetan", | |
| "speakers": 1200000 | |
| }, | |
| "to": { | |
| "name": "Tongan", | |
| "speakers": 96000 | |
| }, | |
| "tr": { | |
| "name": "Turkish", | |
| "speakers": 50700000 | |
| }, | |
| "uk": { | |
| "name": "Ukrainian", | |
| "speakers": 36000000 | |
| }, | |
| "ur": { | |
| "name": "Urdu", | |
| "speakers": 63400000 | |
| }, | |
| "uz": { | |
| "name": "Uzbek", | |
| "speakers": 27000000 | |
| }, | |
| "vi": { | |
| "name": "Vietnamese", | |
| "speakers": 67800000 | |
| }, | |
| "cy": { | |
| "name": "Welsh", | |
| "speakers": 740000 | |
| }, | |
| "xh": { | |
| "name": "Xhosa", | |
| "speakers": 8200000 | |
| }, | |
| "yi": { | |
| "name": "Yiddish", | |
| "speakers": 1500000 | |
| }, | |
| "yo": { | |
| "name": "Yoruba", | |
| "speakers": 21000000 | |
| }, | |
| "yua": { | |
| "name": "Yucatec Maya", | |
| "speakers": 790000 | |
| }, | |
| "yue": { | |
| "name": "Yueh", | |
| "speakers": 60000000 | |
| }, | |
| "zu": { | |
| "name": "Zulu", | |
| "speakers": 26000000 | |
| } | |
| } |
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Thank you for this, very useful! Though I was surprised at the inclusion of Elvish...