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A foreign language is a language that is not an official language of, nor typically spoken in, a specific country. Native speakers from that country usually need to acquire it through conscious learning, such as through language lessons at school, self-teaching, or attending language courses.
There are only 250 countries in the world corresponding to some 6,000 languages, which means that most countries are multilingual and most languages therefore exist in close contact with other languages.
A world language (sometimes global language, [1] : 101 rarely international language [2] [3]) is a language that is geographically widespread and makes it possible for members of different language communities to communicate. The term may also be used to refer to constructed international auxiliary languages such as Esperanto. [4]
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LanguageNative Speakers (in Millions)Language FamilyBranch941486380345English as a second or foreign language is the use of English by speakers with different native languages, often with students whose native language is not English and are learning to speak and write English, commonly among students. Language education for people learning English may be known as English as a foreign language ( EFL ), English as ...
Official languages of sovereign countries, wholly or partly. Abkhaz : Abkhazia (with Russian; independence is disputed) [1] Afar : Djibouti (with Arabic, French, Somali) Afrikaans : Namibia (with English and German) South Africa (with English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu) [2] Aja-Gbe :
Languages used on the Internet (includes a list of languages with the most prevalence online) List of mutually intelligible languages; Special types of languages. List of creole languages; List of mixed languages; List of pidgins, creoles, mixed languages and cants based on Indo-European languages. List of English-based pidgins; List of sign ...