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

    List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language; Number of languages by country; World language; Languages used on the Internet; Extinct language; Official languages of the United Nations

    • Lists of Languages

      Published lists. SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages...

    • First-language

      The monument to the mother tongue (ana dili) in Nakhchivan,...

    • Creole Languages

      Origin. It is disputed to what extent the various...

    • Hindi

      Hindi is the fourth most-spoken first language in the world,...

    • Bengali

      Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা, Bāṅlā, ⓘ),...

    • Modern Standard Arabic

      Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Modern Written Arabic (MWA)...

    • Thai

      A native Thai speaker, recorded in Bangkok. Thai, or Central...

    • Russian

      Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in...

    • Urdu

      Urdu (/ ˈ ʊər d uː /; اردو, ⓘ; ALA-LC: Urdū) is an...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_languages_byList of languages by number of native speakers - Wikipedia

    hide. (Top) Top languages by population. Ethnologue (2024) CIA World Factbook (2018 estimates) See also. References. List of languages by number of native speakers. Current distribution of human language families. Human languages ranked by their number of native speakers are as follows.

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_official_languagesList of official languages by country and territory - Wikipedia

    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 .

    Country/region
    Official Language
    Abkhazia [a]
    Abkhaz Russian
    Afghanistan [1]
    Persian (Dari) Pashto
    Albania [2]
    Albanian
    Algeria [3]
    Arabic Berber

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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › World_languageWorld language - Wikipedia

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    Various definitions of the term world languagehave been proposed; there is no general consensus about which one to use. One definition proffered by Congolese linguist Salikoko Mufwene is "languages spoken as vernaculars or as lingua francas outside their homelands and by populations other than those ethnically or nationally associated with them".: ...

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    Arabic

    Arabic has been described by Salikoko Mufwene as a world language—albeit a second-tier one after English and French due to limited use as a lingua franca—on the grounds that is a liturgical language amongst Muslim communities worldwide.: 43 Mohamed Benrabah criticizes this argument, writing that "Rote learning and reciting Koranic verses for daily prayers does not necessarily yield spoken proficiency", but nevertheless categorizes it as a world language on the grounds of it being a supercentr...

    English

    Academic consensus is that English is a world language, with some authors such as British linguists David Crystal and David Graddol going so far as to consider it the only one. Authors who take a pluralist approach nevertheless consider English to inhabit a unique position as the foremost world language; for instance, in Abram de Swaan's global language system, English is the sole occupant of the highest position in the hierarchy: the hypercentral language. According to German sociolinguist U...

    French

    French has been described as a world language due to its status as a supercentral language in de Swaan's global language system, and Salikoko Mufwene characterizes it as such based on it being spoken as a lingua franca or vernacular by people neither ethnically nor nationally associated with it outside of France.: 42

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    Leonhardt, Jürgen (2013). Latin: Story of a World Language. Harvard University Press. doi:10.4159/harvard.9780674726277. ISBN 978-0-674-72627-7.

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  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › LanguageLanguage - Wikipedia

    Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and written forms, and may also be conveyed through sign languages. Human language is characterized by its cultural and historical diversity, with significant variations observed ...

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

    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)

  9. www.visualcapitalist.com › 100-most-spokenRanked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Around the World

    Feb 15, 2020 · Today’s detailed visualization from WordTips illustrates the 100 most spoken languages in the world, the number of native speakers for each language, and the origin tree that each language has branched out from.

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