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This article ranks human languages by their number of native speakers. However, all such rankings should be used with caution. First, it is difficult to define the difference between a language and a dialect, or between a language and a macrolanguage; for example, Chinese is sometimes considered a single language and sometimes a macrolanguage whose many varieties are all independent languages. For a list of languages with the smallest numbers of native speakers, see lists of endangered languages. ==''Nationalencyklopedin''== The following table contains the top 100 languages by estimated number of native speakers in the 2007 edition of ''Nationalencyklopedin''. As census methods in different countries vary to a considerable extent, and some countries do not record language in their censuses, any list of languages by native speakers, or total speakers, is based on estimates. Updated estimates from 2010 are also provided.〔Mikael Parkvall, "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), in ''Nationalencyklopedin''. Asterisks mark the (2010 estimates ) for the top dozen languages.〕 The top eleven languages have additional figures from the 2010 edition of the ''Nationalencyklopedin''. Numbers above 95 million are rounded off to the nearest 5 million. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「list of languages by number of native speakers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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