Languages by speakers information

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...

Languages by speakers are split into the following articles: List of languages by number of native speakers List of languages by total number of speakers...

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...

(phylogenetic) by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic...

Ordered by number of speakers as first language. The 2011 census recorded 31 individual languages as having more than 1 million native speakers (0.1% of...

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secondary speakers of the world's leading languages. Weber used the Fischer Weltalmanach of 1986 as his primary and only source for the L2-speakers data,...

languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some...

creole languages, pidgin languages, and sign languages originating in what is now the United States. Interlingua, an international auxiliary language, was...

additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign languages. The official language of Indonesia...

This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. L1: 119 million in the Russian Federation (of which c. 83 million...

one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages. Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum...

second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in 59 sovereign states (such as in...

languages. Of these, 29 languages have more than a million native speakers, 60 have more than 100,000 and 122 have more than 10,000 native speakers....

of speakers as a first or second language (L1 and L2 speakers) listed are speakers in Europe only; see list of languages by number of native speakers and...

speakers ranging approximately from 1 to 2 million, with the main Neo-Aramaic languages being Suret (~240,000 speakers) and Turoyo (~250,000 speakers)...

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...

branch of the Indo-European language family. The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are Spanish (489 million), Portuguese...

Bantu speakers, and one-third of Bantu languages, are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The most widely spoken Bantu language by number...

Welsh speakers consider themselves fluent, while 20 per cent are able to speak a fair amount. 56 per cent of Welsh speakers speak the language daily,...

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...

regional languages are spoken as first languages by Pakistan's various ethnolinguistic groups. Languages with more than a million speakers each include...

districts of Tamil Nadu. The Dravidian languages with the most speakers are (in descending order of number of speakers) Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam...

thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi...

German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch, with 24 million native speakers. Other West Germanic languages include Afrikaans, an offshoot of...

other important languages in Argentina with 200,000 speakers and 65,000 speakers respectively. Fifteen Indigenous American languages currently exist and...

away from an endangered language to a majority language, not all speakers acquire full linguistic competence; instead, speakers have varying degrees and...