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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lists_of_languagesLists of languages - Wikipedia

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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.

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

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   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 sometimes considered language families instead.

   Language	Family	Branch	First-language (l1) Speakers
   English (excl. creole languages )	Indo-European	Germanic	380 million
   Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic	939 million
   Hindi (excl. Urdu )	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan	345 million
   Spanish (excl. creole languages )	Indo-European	Romance	485 million

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   Which macrolanguages are not included in Ethnologue?

   • 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 . The World Factbook, produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), estimates the ten most spoken languages ( L1 + L2) in 2022 as follows:

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   Which languages are not mutually intelligible?

   • Conversely, many commonly accepted languages, including German, Italian and even English encompass varieties that are not mutually intelligible. While Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic, other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages.

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   What is a state language?

   • A language designated as having a unique legal status in the state: typically, the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, and often, official government business. A language designated as having official status limited to a specific area, administrative division, or territory of the state.

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   What is a regional language?

   • A language designated as having official status limited to a specific area, administrative division, or territory of the state. (On this page a regional language has parentheses next to it that contain a region, province, etc. where the language has regional status.)

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

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   Ethnologue (2024) The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first-language speakers in the 26th edition of Ethnologue published in 2023. [7] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing all their respective varieties, such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and ...

   Language	Native Speakers (in Millions)	Language Family	Branch
   Mandarin Chinese	941	Sino-Tibetan	Sinitic
   Spanish	486	Indo-European	Romance
   English	380	Indo-European	Germanic
   Hindi	345	Indo-European	Indo-Aryan

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