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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?
The World Atlas of Languages is an interactive and dynamic online tool that documents different aspects and features of language status in countries and languages around the world. It aims to provide a detailed record of languages as communicative tools and knowledge resources in their sociocultural and socio-political contexts.
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. English (1,456,448,320) Mandarin Chinese (1,138,222,350) Hindi (609,454,770)
According to the World Atlas of Languages' methodology, there are around 8324 languages, spoken or signed, documented by governments, public institutions and academic communities. O ut of 8324, around 7000 languages are still in use.
The world’s 8 billion inhabitants speak thousands of languages, but most of them are spoken by small populations. About 5 billion people are native speakers of just 25 languages. Below is a list of the 25 languages with the highest number of native speakers, according to data from the Ethnologue language catalog in the early 2020s.
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.
Nov 24, 2021 · As the world prepares for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032, UNESCO unveils the World Atlas of Languages (WAL), an unprecedented initiative to preserve, revitalize and promote global linguistic diversity and multilingualism as a unique heritage and treasure of humanity. © UNESCO. 24 November 2021. Last update:20 April 2023.
