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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.
The more commonly spoken languages dominate the less commonly spoken languages, so the less commonly spoken languages eventually disappear from populations. Of the between 6,000 [ 5 ] and 7,000 languages spoken as of 2010, between 50 and 90% of those are expected to have become extinct by the year 2100. [ 6 ]
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 sometimes considered language families instead.
Babine – Witsuwit’en, ᗔᙣᗔᗥᐣ . Spoken in: British Columbia in Canada Baga † – Barka . Formerly spoken in: the Republic of Guinea; Bai – 白语 . Spoken in: the Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China
In contrast, some languages have multiple Wikipedias. For example, Serbo-Croatian encompasses four Wikipedia editions, Serbo-Croatian and three different standardized varieties ( Bosnian , Croatian , and Serbian ).
The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first-language speakers in the 27th edition of Ethnologue published in 2024. [7] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing all their respective varieties, such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese.
There is debate over the most-used languages on the Internet. A 2009 UNESCO report monitoring the languages of websites for 12 years, from 1996 to 2008, found a steady year-on-year decline in the percentage of webpages in English, from 75 percent in 1998 to 45 percent in 2005. [2]
Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian) [69] Cherkess: Karachay–Cherkessia (state language; with Abaza, Karachay, Nogai and Russian) [67] Cherokee: Cherokee Nation tribal jurisdiction area in Oklahoma, United States. [77] Chipewyan: