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This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe ... Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian: 106,000,000 [1] 160,000,000 [1] 2 ...
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. ... Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese
The following is a table of European languages. The number of speakers as a first or second language (L1 and L2 speakers) listed are speakers in Europe only; [nb 1] see list of languages by number of native speakers and list of languages by total number of speakers for global estimates on numbers of speakers. [citation needed]
Languages with at least 50 million first-language speakers [7] Language Native speakers (in millions) Language family Branch Mandarin Chinese: 941 Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: Spanish: 486 Indo-European: Romance: English: 380 Indo-European: Germanic: Hindi: 345 Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: Bengali: 237 Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: Portuguese: 236 Indo ...
At 19% of the total number of speakers, German was the most widely spoken native language, followed by French (15%), Italian (13%) Polish (9%) and Spanish (9%). The knowledge of foreign languages varied considerably in the specific countries, as the table below shows.
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
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [66] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [67] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
Eight of the top ten biggest languages, by number of native speakers, are Indo-European. One of these languages, English, is the de facto world lingua franca, with an estimate of over one billion second language speakers. Indo-European language family has 10 known branches or subfamilies, of which eight are living and two are extinct.