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List of languages. This is a partial list of natural languages, arranged alphabetically. Contents: Top – 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.
SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns codes for most languages; see ISO 639
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List of languages by the number of countries in which they are the most widely used. This is a ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are de jure or de facto official, co-official, an administrative or working language.
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
LanguageFamilyBranchFirst-language (l1) SpeakersEnglish (excl. creole languages )380 millionMandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...939 millionHindi (excl. Urdu )345 millionSpanish (excl. creole languages )485 millionOver 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.
[1] Over half the world's population speaks the 15 most used native languages. They are listed here. They are from the Swedish Nationalencyklopedin (2007, 2010). The distinction between language and dialect is often not clear. Some mutually intelligible versions have been unified. [2] .
