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A color-coded map of most languages used throughout Europe. There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [1] [2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.
all national languages as official languages, but with a number of relais languages for translations (e.g. English or Esperanto as relais languages). New immigrants in European countries are expected to learn the host nation's language, but are still speaking and reading their native languages (i.e. Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese, Swahili and ...
National language A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.)
National language in Switzerland (with German, French, and Italian) [41] Official language in canton of Grisons (with German and Italian) [58] Russian: Russia (in some regions together with regional languages) [59] Abkhazia (with Abkhaz according to the Abkhazian constitution; [1] independence is disputed) Belarus (with Belarusian) [15 ...
Rank Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian: 106,000,000 [1]: 160,000,000 [1]: 2 German: 97,000,000 [2]: 170,000,000 [3]: 3 French: 81,000,000 [4]: 210,000,000 ...
An Esperantido some believe was created to cause dissent among Idoists. Timerio: 1921 Tiemer: A language where each concept is replaced with a number, intended to be used as a means for automatic translation. Interlingue: ie, ile 1922 Edgar de Wahl: A sophisticated naturalistic IAL, also known as Occidental. Novial: nov 1928 Otto Jespersen
The Council granted recognition to "languages other than the languages referred to in Council Regulation No 1/1958 whose status is recognised by the Constitution of a Member State on all or part of its territory or the use of which as a national language is authorised by law."
The Atlas Linguarum Europae (literally Atlas of the Languages of Europe, ALE in acronym) is a linguistic atlas project launched in 1970 with the help of UNESCO, and published from 1975 to 2007. The ALE used its own phonetic transcription system, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet with some modifications.