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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.htm ) My guess for the top 5 European languages would be (in no particular order) English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.
The Russian landmass west of the Ural Mountains, is commonly referred to as European Russia by most atlases, travel guides and geography experts. It is not a separate country, but rather called that because of its political, cultural and geographical blendings with Europe. For reference purposes it is shown above in a different shade of green, however, the entire country is still considered part of Asia.
This taken from http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/r
u.htm
Should have checked my usual source of reliable information, the American CIA site, which you might find interesting.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/
rs.html#top
ssia+(Europe) ). The great majority of the population of Russia live in the European rather than Asian bits.
By contrast (note, not all info is bang up to date): German (perhaps 85million throughout Europe), French 60m), Italian (56m), English (55m in UK, plus others throughout Europe), Spanish (29m - only 72% of Spanish population speak Castillian as mother-tongue),
The same site lists 20m Dutch speakers but in Aruba, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Israel, Philippines, Surinam as well as Europe: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=D
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