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  2. The number of people in the United States who spoke a language other than English at home nearly tripled from 23.1 million (about 1 in 10) in 1980 to 67.8 million (almost 1 in 5) in 2019, according to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report.

  3. Most spoken languages, CIA, 2022; Language Percentage of world population (2022) English: 18.8% Mandarin Chinese: 13.8% Hindi: 7.5% Spanish: 6.9% French: 3.4% Arabic: 3.4% Bengali: 3.4% Russian: 3.2% Portuguese: 3.2% Urdu: 2.9%

    Language
    Family
    Branch
    First-language (l1) Speakers
    English (excl. creole languages )
    380 million
    Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...
    939 million
    Hindi (excl. Urdu )
    345 million
    Spanish (excl. creole languages )
    485 million
  4. 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)

  5. Feb 21, 2022. Humans are thought to speak more than 7,000 languages across the globe - 7,139 to be precise, according to Ethnologue. Asia has the most of them, 2,300, followed by Africa with...

  6. Based on this data, Mandarin and Cantonese were the most common non-English, non-Spanish languages spoken in the U.S., with more than . 3.4 million speakers across the country. Here is a list of the most common languages spoken at home in the U.S., outside of English:

  7. note 2: all told, there are estimated to be just over 7,115 languages spoken in the world (2020); approximately 80% of these languages are spoken by less than 100,000 people; about 150 languages are spoken by fewer than 10 people; communities that are isolated from each other in mountainous regions often develop multiple languages; Papua New ...

  8. Dec 16, 2021 · About Language Use in the U.S. Population. For most people residing in the United States, English is the only language spoken in the home. However, many languages other than English are spoken in homes across the country. Data on speakers of languages other than English and on their English-speaking ability provide more than an interesting ...

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