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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.
The following languages are listed as having 45 million or more total speakers in the 26th edition of Ethnologue published in 2023. This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing all their respective varieties , such as Arabic , Lahnda , Persian , Malay , Pashto , and Chinese .
This is a list of the number of languages by country and dependency according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
Nov 3, 2019 · If you’ve never bothered to ask, “How many languages are there?”, this statistic can sound improbable. But the fact is that seven languages only make up about 0.1 percent of the linguistic diversity on our planet!
There are about 7000 spoken languages in the world and about 300 writing systems. Which language is the number 1 worldwide? According to various sources, English is the most widely spoken language in the world, with around 1.35 billion speakers (first and second language (L1 and L2)).
There are currently around 6,500 languages in the world. The country with the most languages and dialects is probably Papua New Guinea, a country on the border between Asia and Australia with historically numerous trade relations in large parts of Asia, Australia and Oceania.
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.
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.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a comprehensive reference work that provides information and statistics for all of the world’s known living languages. Since 1951, Ethnologue has been an active research project involving hundreds of linguists and other researchers around the world.
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 ...
