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This is yet another angle of approach to mothertongue question (or, precisely, narrowing it down) The poll enlists most numerous languages of Europe.
This is a list of top 10 most spoken languages in Europe.
Russian over 100 000 000 (mainly in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus)
German 98 000 000 (mainly in Germany, Austria and Switzerland)
French 66 000 000 (mainly in France, Belgium and Switzerland)
English 65 000 000 (mainly in the UK and Ireland)
Italian 58 000 000 (mainly in Italy)
Spanish 44 000 000 (mainly in Spain)
Polish 39 000 000 (mainly in Poland)
Ukrainian 39 000 000 (mainly in Ukraine)
Romanian 24 000 000 (mainly in Romania and Moldova)
Dutch 22 000 000 (mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium)
I count that the rest of the world has different numbers of distribution, but, seing as
Civilizations poll has shown that majority of our members view themselves as belonging to Western Civilization, that the list pretty well covers that majority.