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This is a list of languages by number of native speakers. Current distribution of human language families. All such rankings of human languages ranked by their number of native speakers 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]
For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. 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, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic, other authors consider its mutually ...
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.
Lists which are global in scope (all living natural languages would classify for inclusion): by country: List of official languages by country and territory; Number of languages by country; by name: List of language names (native names) by phylogenetic relation: List of language families (phylogenetic)
Mordovia (state language; with Moksha and Russian) [80] Even: Sakha (local official language; in localities with Even population) [78] Evenki: Sakha (local official language; in localities with Evenki population) [78] Faroese: Faroe Islands (with Danish) Finnish: Karelia (authorized language; with Karelian and Veps) [81] French: parts of Canada
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(not confuse with Karipuna or Palikúr a native Arawakan language of Amapá State) Lanc-Patuá, spoken more widely in the state of Amapá, is a variety of the former, possibly the same language. Indian Ocean Varieties with progressive aspect marker ape [2] – subsumed under a common classification as Bourbonnais Creoles (Mascarene Creoles)
A large number of students with a high-school education would generally be trilingual – speaking their own native language, in addition to Hindi and English, with varying fluency—because of the nation's long-standing three language formula that encourages students to learn English and another Indian language as second- and third-languages.