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Comprehensive lists. Lists which are global in scope (all living natural languages would classify for inclusion): by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Tungusic languages, List of Turkic languages, List of Uralic languages.
This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language , regional language , or minority language .
This is a list of the number of languages by country and dependency according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
Below is a list of the 25 languages with the highest number of native speakers, according to data from the Ethnologue language catalog in the early 2020s. For a list that also counts people who speak the language non-natively but proficiently, see languages by total number of speakers. Lahnda (103,000,000 [Western Punjabi: 66,715,480]).
Below is a List of languages by number of native speakers. Over half the world's population speaks the 15 most used native languages. They are listed here. They are from the Swedish Nationalencyklopedin (2007, 2010). The distinction between language and dialect is often not clear.
The six branches of Afro-Asiatic are Semitic, Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Omotic, and Egyptian. The Semitic branch has 78 languages, including Arabic, the first language of up to 300 million throughout North Africa and widely spoken in the Middle East. Among the world’s languages, Arabic ranks fourth in the number of speakers.
Sep 12, 2021 · Only 23 languages are spoken by at least 50 million native speakers. What’s more, over half the planet speaks at least one of these 23 languages. Chinese dominates as a macrolanguage, but it’s important to note that it consists of numerous languages. Mandarin, Yue (including Cantonese), Min, Wu, and Hakka cover over 200 individual dialects ...
