Could be a large poll, this site, lists 6,800 "main" languages! <grin> And this site lists over 200 languages with > 1 million speakers.

Here are a couple of possibles using data (and order) from here

Top 12 languages-

• English
• German
• Spanish
• Portugese
• French
• Russian
• Hindi/Urdu
• Bengali
• Arabic
• Japanese
• Mandarin
• Indonesian (Malay)
• Other
• I only speak Perl
• I don't speak you insensitive clod!

Language groups-

• Indo-European
• Dravidian
• Afro-Asiatic
• Caucasian
• Nilo-Saharan
• Niger-Congo
• Uralic
• Altaic
• Korean
• Japanese
• Miao-Yao
• Tai
• Austro-Asiatic
• Sino-Tibetan
• Austronesian
• Aztec-Tanoan
• Penutian
• Andean
• Equatorial
• Pidgins and Creoles
• Other
• pod
• Language agnostic $@#! words

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