Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Current distribution of human language families. 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 devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. [1]
List of languages by number of native speakers; List of languages by total number of speakers This page was last edited on 14 February 2024, at 08:18 (UTC). Text is ...
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. ... Rank Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian: ... [10] 28,000,000 [11] 10
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lists_of_languages_by_number_of_speakers&oldid=1067333791"
chronologically: List of languages by first written accounts; by number of speakers: List of languages by total number of speakers; List of languages by number of native speakers; List of languages by number of words according to authoritative dictionaries; List of languages by number of phonemes
List of languages by total speakers. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; English. Read; ... List of languages by total number of speakers; Retrieved from "https: ...