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Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world.. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers.
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.
States/territories where Arabic is an official language No. State/Territory Population Notes Member state of the Arab League 1 Somaliland a 5,700,000: Co-official language, along with Somali and English
The Language families of Asia. Asia is home to hundreds of languages comprising several families and some unrelated isolates. The most spoken language families on the continent include Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Japonic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan, Kra–Dai and Koreanic.
The official language of Indonesia is Indonesian [9] (locally known as bahasa Indonesia), a standardised form of Malay, [10] which serves as the lingua franca of the archipelago. According to the 2020 census, over 97% of Indonesians are fluent in Indonesian. [ 11 ]
The following is a list of countries and territories where English is an official language used in citizen interactions with government officials. As of 2024, there are 57 sovereign states and 28 non-sovereign entities where English is an official language.
Country Broadcaster Launched Languages Website Australia Australia Plus: 1993/2014 English China CGTN: 1997 on CCTV-4 Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish CCTV-4: 1992 ...