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In the European Union statistics, Italian is spoken as a native language by 13% of the EU population, or 65 million people, [62] mainly in Italy. In the EU, it is spoken as a second language by 3% of the EU population, or 14 million people.
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. List ... Judeo-Italian: 250 [129] 121 Manx: 230 [130] 2,300 [131] 122 Ingrian ...
Europe 60,198,633 [6] Official language Switzerland: Europe 8,619,259 [7] Co-official language with German, French, and Romansh Croatia: Europe 208,055 Istria County Slovenia: Europe 93,089 Slovene Istria San Marino: Europe 33,607 [8] Official language Vatican City: Europe 825 [9] Co-official language with Latin: Total 69,153,468
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.
Italian bilingual speakers can be found scattered across the Southeast of Brazil as well as in the South, [250] In Venezuela, Italian is the most spoken language after Spanish and Portuguese, with around 200,000 speakers. [255] In Uruguay, people that speak Italian as their home language is 1.1% of the total population of the country. [256]
The European Union regards Luxembourgish as a minority language, too, as it is not an official language of the EU. Through June 13, 2005, the Irish language also had this status. In recent years, some countries of the EU have begun assorting the status as a minority language to various sign languages .
Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 million 199 million 1.140 billion Hindi (excl ...
Those who live in southern European countries or countries where one of the major European languages is a state language have a lower likelihood of speaking multiple foreign languages. Only 5% of Turks, 13% of Irish, 16% of Italians, 17% of Spaniards and 18% of Britons speak at least two languages apart from their native language.