- A second language is a language that a person learns in addition to their first language. A second language may be learned in a formal or informal way, such as at school or in a family.
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4 days ago · Spanish is by far the most common second language in the country, with over 50 million total speakers if non-native or second-language speakers are included. While English is the de facto national language of the country, Spanish is often used in public services and notices at the federal and state levels.
- Old Latin, Classical Latin, Vulgar Latin, Old Spanish, Early Modern Spanish
- Signed Spanish (Mexico, Spain and presumably elsewhere)
4 days ago · Swahili has become a second language spoken by tens of millions in four African Great Lakes countries (Kenya, DRC, Uganda, and Tanzania), where it is an official or national language, while being the first language for many people in Tanzania especially in the coastal regions of Tanga, Pwani, Dar es Salaam, Mtwara and Lindi. In the inner ...
- Proto-Swahili
- Estimates range from 2 million (2003) to 18 million (2012), L2 speakers: 90 million (1991–2015)
4 days ago · English is an Indo-European language and belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. Old English originated from a Germanic tribal and linguistic continuum along the Frisian North Sea coast, whose languages gradually evolved into the Anglic languages in the British Isles, and into the Frisian languages and Low German/Low Saxon on the continent.
- Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English
- 360–400 million (2006), L2 speakers: 750 million;, as a foreign language: 600–700 million
- Indo-European, GermanicWest GermanicNorth Sea GermanicAnglo-FrisianAnglicEnglish
- Manually coded English, (multiple systems)
4 days ago · Bengali is a second official language of the Indian state of Jharkhand since September 2011. In Pakistan , Bengali is a recognised secondary language in the city of Karachi . [45] [46] [47] The Department of Bengali in the University of Karachi also offers regular programs of studies at the Bachelors and at the Masters levels for Bengali ...
- 300 million (2011–2017), L2 speakers: 37 million
- Bengali, Bengali Braille
4 days ago · In 2010, Indonesian had 42.8 million native speakers and 154.9 million second-language speakers, who speak it alongside their local mother tongue, giving a total number of speakers in Indonesia of 197.7 million. It is common as a first language in urban areas, and as a second language by those residing in more rural parts of Indonesia.
- Austronesian, Malayo-PolynesianMalayo-SumbawanMalayic (?)Standard Malay-IndonesianIndonesian
- Indonesia and Timor Leste
- L1 speakers: 270 million (2010 census), L2 speakers: 290 million (2010 census)
- Latin (Indonesian alphabet), Indonesian Braille
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Second language
Any language spoken by someone other than their first languages
A person's second language, or L2, is a language that is not the native language (first language or L1) of the speaker, but is learned later (usually as a foreign language, but it can be another language used in the speaker's home country). A speaker's dominant language, which is the language a speaker uses most or is most comfortable with, is not necessarily the speaker's first language. The seco... Wikipedia
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