Little languages
The 11 largest languages in the world account for approximately half the world’s population (Chinese, English, Hindi/Urdu, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Bengali, Japanese, German and French). Most of the world’s languages are spoken by relatively few people: the median number of speakers is probably around 5-6,000. 95% of the world’s spoken languages have fewer than 1 million native users; half of all the languages have fewer than 10,000. 4% of languages are spoken by 96% of the world’s population.
