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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.
A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds or (depending on one's definition) manual gestures, as opposed to a written language.An oral language or vocal language is a language produced with the vocal tract in contrast with a sign language, which is produced with the body and hands.
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.
The more commonly spoken languages dominate the less commonly spoken languages, so the less commonly spoken languages eventually disappear from populations. Of the between 6,000 [5] and 7,000 languages spoken as of 2010, between 50 and 90% of those are expected to have become extinct by the year 2100. [6]
Spoken by: Aymara people in Bolivia, Chile, and Peru; Äynu – ئەينۇ Spoken in: the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China; Azerbaijani – Azərbaycanca Official language in: Azerbaijan and Dagestan, Russia; Spoken in: Iran, Turkey and Georgia; Azoyu Me'phaa – me̱'pha̱a̱ tsíndíí Spoken in: Guerrero, Mexico
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 ...
SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns codes for most languages; see ISO 639. List of ISO 639-1 codes – two-letter codes (184 major languages) List of ISO 639-2 codes – three-letter codes
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.