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  1. This is a list of the number of languages by country and dependency according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.

  2. This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language, regional language, or minority language .

    Country/region
    Official Language
    Abkhaz Russian
    Persian (Dari) Pashto
    Arabic Berber
  3. This entry provides a listing of languages spoken in each country and specifies any that are official national or regional languages. When data is available, the languages spoken in each country are broken down according to the percent of the total population speaking each language as a first language.

  4. 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

    Language
    Family
    Branch
    First-language (l1) Speakers
    English (excl. creole languages )
    380 million
    Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...
    939 million
    Hindi (excl. Urdu )
    345 million
    Spanish (excl. creole languages )
    485 million
  5. 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.

  6. 600. 700. 800. 900. Click on a country for details. Average Number of Languages Spoken by Country 2024. Most people associate the United States with very little linguistic diversity. It is true that citizens of the United States tend to speak only one language: English. Furthermore, there are some people in the United States who have a ...

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  8. According to the World Atlas of Languages’ methodology, there are 8324 languages, spoken or signed, documented by the governments, public institutions and academic communities; out of 8324, around 7000 languages are still in use.

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