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- Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has hosted 306 different language versions. Compared to the roughly 7,000 languages spoken in the world this number can seem small, but considering just 23 languages are spoken by more than half the world’s population, these 306 cover a broad swath of humanity.
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The remaining 21 Wikipedia languages are most prevalent in a single country. Wikipedia’s language geography. Wikipedia offers us some high-level information about its 300 language editions in its List of Wikipedias.
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Most spoken languages, Ethnologue, 2023; Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.077 billion: 1.456 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 939 million
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Jan 13, 2021 · Internet usage worldwide ›. The Most Common Languages on Wikipedia. 20 Years of Wikipedia. by. Katharina Buchholz , Jan 13, 2021. Online encyclopedia Wikipedia went online twenty years ago on...
Dec 14, 2023. As of December 2023, the English subdomain of Wikipedia had around 6.75 million articles published, being the largest subdomain of the website by numbers of entries and registered...
Nov 14, 2019 · How Many Languages Are On Wikipedia? Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has hosted 306 different language versions. Compared to the roughly 7,000 languages spoken in the world this number can seem small, but considering just 23 languages are spoken by more than half the world’s population, these 306 cover a broad swath of humanity.
Human languages ranked by their number of native speakers are as follows. All such rankings should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. [1]