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3 days ago · In the same survey, 38% of UK citizens reported that they could speak (well enough to have a conversation) at least one language other than their mother tongue, 18% at least two languages and 6% at least three languages. 62% of UK citizens cannot speak any second language.
Apr 17, 2024 · Ninety percent of these languages are only spoken by 100,000 or fewer people. Around the world, just 23 languages are spoken by over half of the population! In this article, we delve into the latest statistics on languages spoken globally, focusing on their distribution across countries as of 2024.
Apr 17, 2024 · This means that there are around 24.5 million bilingual adults in the UK. 17.5% are bilingual, so can fluently speak 2 languages. And 6.5% of people in the UK are multilingual, as they can speak 3 or more languages fluently. What’s more: 1 in 20 people say they can speak 3 languages fluently (5%).
Apr 30, 2024 · North to south, east to west, the UK is home to a staggering array of languages, each with its own unique story to tell. We’re going to dig in to uncover the top 10 spoken languages in the UK, revealing the linguistic landscape that lies beneath the surface of this multicultural nation.
1 day ago · SIL Ethnologue lists six living Celtic languages, of which four have retained a substantial number of native speakers. These are: the Goidelic languages ( Irish and Scottish Gaelic, both descended from Middle Irish) and the Brittonic languages ( Welsh and Breton, descended from Common Brittonic ). [4]
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Apr 22, 2024 · There are 24 official languages in the European Union. In alphabetical order, they are… (Take a deep breath here.) Bulgarian. Croatian. Czech. Danish. Dutch. English. Estonian. Finnish. French. German. Greek. Hungarian. Irish. Italian. Latvian. Lithuanian.
21 hours ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
