Table 1.
language family | language | size (no. of words) |
---|---|---|
Indo-European | English | 100 million |
Russian | 140 million | |
Greek | 47 million | |
Portuguese | 45 million | |
Spanish | 1 million | |
Chilean Spanish | 450 million | |
French | 31 390 000 | |
Czech | 100 million | |
Polish | 450 million | |
Sino-Tibetan | Chinese | 1 million |
Uralic | Finnish | 21 329 990 |
Estonian | 1 million | |
Niger-Congo | Swahili | 2 million |
Altaic | Turkish | 2 million |
Austronesian | Māori | 1 million |
unclassified languages | Basque | 5 million |
Creole | Tok Pisin | 864 900 |