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   How many languages are there?

   • The data comes from the 22nd edition of Ethnologue, a database covering a majority of the world’s population, detailing approximately 7,111 living languages in existence today. The definitions of languages are often dynamic, blurring the lines around a singular understanding of what makes a language:

   Ranked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Worldwide - Visual Capitalist

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   How many English speakers are there in the world?

   • Of the billion-strong English speakers in the world, only 33% consider it their native language. The popularity of a language depends greatly on utility and geographic location. Additionally, how we measure the spread of world languages can vary greatly depending on whether you look at total speakers or native speakers.

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   What percentage of the world's population is bilingual?

   • Nearly 43% of the world’s population is bilingual, with the ability to switch between two languages with ease. From the data, second language (L2) speakers can be calculated by looking at the difference between native and total speakers, as a proportion of the total. For example, 66% of English speakers learned it as a second language.

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   What languages are spoken in the world?

   • List of Languages most widely spoken in the world. Megalanguages around the World - List of Chinese, English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, and French-speaking countries. Languages of the World and where they are spoken, a list of Language Names in English and French with ISO 639-2 Alpha-3, and some of the Alpha-2 language identification codes.

   Languages of the World - A Nations Online Project

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2. www.visualcapitalist.com › 100-most-spokeRanked: The 100 Most Spoken Languages Around the World

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   Feb 15, 2020 · Today’s detailed visualization from WordTips illustrates the 100 most spoken languages in the world, the number of native speakers for each language, and the origin tree that each language has branched out from.

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

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   Lists of languages. List of languages by number of native speakers. List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language. Number of languages by country. World language. Languages used on the Internet. Extinct language. Official languages of the United Nations. Notes.

   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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4. www.nationsonline.org › oneworld › languagesLanguages of the World - A Nations Online Project

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   Learn about the diversity, distribution and history of languages in the world, with facts and figures from various sources. Find out the most widely spoken languages, the official languages of the UN, the languages by continent and the languages by region.

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

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   The Ethnologue 200 accounts for most of the world's population. Over 88% of people speak one of these languages as their native tongue, and many hundreds of millions more speak them as second languages. This ranking accounts for both, showing the total usage worldwide.

6. en.wal.unesco.org › world-atlas-languagesThe World Atlas of Languages | UNESCO WAL

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   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, based on official data from UNESCO’s Member States and other sources.

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8. www.worldatlas.com › society › how-many-languagesHow Many Languages Are There In The World? - WorldAtlas

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   Jan 4, 2023 · Learn about the 7,151 recognized languages in use, their language families, and their origins and evolution. Find out the most spoken languages in the world, the languages that face extinction, and the languages that are unique or rare.

9. www.britannica.com › topic › languages-by-totallanguages by total number of speakers - Encyclopedia Britannica

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   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)