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Why are the languages linked to the language codes instead of the actual language name? Kartagis (talk) 11:34, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Because the ranking is based on Ethnologue's language codes. a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 13:29, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The ethnologue ranking is clearly unreliable

No matter how you cherry pick the numbers, English has more than 380 million native speakers. Obviously, every other number is even more unreliable since it couldn't even get English right and that was the easiest one of all. 5.12.231.251 (talk) 07:11, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]