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The UN has six official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. [ UN] How many languages are there in the world? There are about 7000 spoken languages in the world and about 300 writing systems. Which language is the number 1 worldwide?
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties, and so they are
Comprehensive list of 6000 languages from every country in the world including information on the number of speakers, countries and ISO codes.
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.
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.
Entries include: The region (s) of use within the countries where the language is spoken. Alternate names for the language. Dialects of the language. The three-letter code that identifies the language according to the ISO 639-3 standard. Estimated population of speakers. Genetic classification of the language. Domains of language use and viability.
This entry provides a listing of languages spoken in each country and specifies any that are official national or regional languages. When data is available, the languages spoken in each country are broken down according to the percent of the total population speaking each language as a first language, unless otherwise noted.
