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1. • • According to SIL's publication Ethnologue there are 6,909 distinct languages. Languages are not uniformly distributed around the world: only 234 are spoken in Europe, while 2,322 are spoken in Asia. Another 2,110 are spoken in Africa, 993 in the Americas, and 1,250 in the Pacific.
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   How many languages are there in the world?

   • The World Atlas of Languages structures data around two dimensions: According to the World Atlas of Languages' methodology, there are around 8324 languages, spoken or signed, documented by governments, public institutions and academic communities. O ut of 8324, around 7000 languages are still in use.

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   How many people speak more than one language?

   • Billions of people around the world speak more than one language. In the case of lingua francas —languages, such as English and French, that people learn to facilitate communication across boundaries—the high number of non-native speakers often approaches or exceeds the number of native speakers.

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   Which language is most spoken in the world?

   • Mandarin Chinese is second, with just over a billion speakers. Hindi and Spanish are used by 602 million and 548 million people, respectively, and French comes in fifth with over 275 million speakers.

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   How many native speakers does English have?

   • For example, English has about 450 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as two billion speakers. [ 2 ] There are also difficulties in obtaining reliable counts of speakers, which vary over time because of population change and language shift.

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   Which languages have 50 million speakers?

   • Ethnologue lists the following languages as having 50 million or more total speakers. [ 4 ] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing several varieties, such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese.

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   How many language families are there?

   • Language families are groups of languages that have shared ancestral languages; of the 7,151 current languages, each one can be placed into 142 language families that have a predecessor proto-language. The following language families are four of the current largest in terms of the number of speakers.

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3. en.wal.unesco.org › world-atlas-languagesThe World Atlas of Languages - UNESCO WAL

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   According to the World Atlas of Languages’ methodology, there are 8324 languages, spoken or signed, documented by the governments, public institutions and academic communities; out of 8324, around 7000 languages are still in use.

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5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_languages_by_totalList of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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   The World Factbook, produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), estimates the ten most spoken languages (L1 + L2) in 2022 as follows: [7] See also. Lingua franca. Lists of languages. List of languages by number of native speakers. List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language.

   Language	Family	Branch	First-language (l1) Speakers
   English (excl. creole languages)	Indo-European	Germanic	380 million
   Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	941 million
   Hindi (excl. Urdu)	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	345 million
   Spanish (excl. creole languages)	Indo-European	Romance	486 million

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6. www.statista.com › statistics › 266808The most spoken languages worldwide 2023 - Statista

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   Jul 4, 2024 · In 2023, there were around 1.5 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.1 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers at the time...

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8. en.wal.unesco.org › discover › languagesLanguages - UNESCO WAL

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   According to the World Atlas of Languages' methodology, there are around 8324 languages, spoken or signed, documented by governments, public institutions and academic communities. O ut of 8324, around 7000 languages are still in use.

9. www.bbc.co.uk › languages › guideLanguages of the world - Interesting facts about languages - BBC

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   How many languages are there? It’s estimated that up to 7,000 different languages are spoken around the world. 90% of these languages are used by less than 100,000 people.

10. www.worldatlas.com › society › how-many-languagesHow Many Languages Are There In The World? - WorldAtlas

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    Jan 4, 2023 · Currently, Ethnologue reports that there are 7,151 recognized languages in use, which are distinct from pidgins and creoles.

11. www.britannica.com › topic › languages-by-totalLanguages by total number of speakers | List, Top, & Most ...

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    Below is a list of the 25 languages with the highest number of total speakers, according to data from the Ethnologue language catalog in the early 2020s. For a list of languages that counts only the number of native speakers, see languages by number of native speakers. English (1,456,448,320)