WebThis list shows countries/disputed countries organized by the languages which are spoken there Indo-European languages Albanian. Country/disputed territory Status Speakers Albania: official and national: 1,570,000 1,200,000 …

WebOct 23, 2022 · From the languages that English speakers will find easy to learn, to the more difficult languages, we've compiled this all-encompassing list for you based on real data. So keep reading to find out what the most spoken languages are. 1. English (1,132 million speakers) Native speakers: 379 million; Non-native speakers: 753 million

WebAug 30, 2021 · As one of the world's fifteen most spoken languages, Japanese is the most geographically concentrated language: over 124 million of its total speakers live in Japan and the Okinawa island group. ... Korean is the official language of the Republic of Korea and the Democratic Republic of Korea, although each nation uses a different …

WebThe Niger–Congo languages constitute the largest language family spoken in West Africa and perhaps the world in terms of the number of languages. One of its salient features is an elaborate noun class system with grammatical concord.A large majority of languages of this family are tonal such as Yoruba and Igbo, Akan and Ewe language.A major branch of …

WebTop languages by population Ethnologue (2022, 25th edition). The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first language speakers in the 2022 edition of Ethnologue, a language reference published by SIL International. Entries identified by Ethnologue as macrolanguages (such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese, …

WebOct 27, 2022 · Attempting to piece these all together with easy-to-view world maps, we've broken down the most spoken languages based on their total number of speakers, while sharing where you will hear them most. ... Official language in: North Korea, South Korea. The History of Korean. No surprise here: South Korea, with 48 million people, and North …

WebAccording to the 2000 population census, Mandarin and other varieties of Chinese are the most common languages spoken at home. They are used by 51% of the population. The table below shows the change in distribution of Mandarin and other Chinese varieties, as well as English, as home languages of the resident Chinese population of Singapore in …

WebThe languages of Taiwan consist of several varieties of languages under the families of Austronesian languages and Sino-Tibetan languages.The Formosan languages, a branch of Austronesian languages, have been spoken by the Taiwanese indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Owing to the wide internal variety of the Formosan languages, …

WebSouth Korea: 4 1 5 0.07 48,586,000 16,195,333 24,202,500 184 ... List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language; List of official languages by country and territory; Linguistic diversity index; Notes

WebThe evolution of languages or history of language includes the evolution, divergence and development of languages throughout time, as reconstructed based on glottochronology, comparative linguistics, written records and other historical linguistics techniques. The origin of language is a hotly contested topic, with some languages tentatively traced back to …