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Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [ 1 ] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [ 6 ]
The Mon language is a recognized indigenous language in Myanmar and Thailand, while the Wa language is a "recognized national language" in the de facto autonomous Wa State within Myanmar. Santali is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India. The remainder of the family's languages are spoken by minority groups and have no official status.
Ta'Oi language; Tai Daeng language; Tai Dam language; Tai Dón language; Tai Lue language; Tai Muong Vat language; Tai Pao language; Tai Thanh language; Tai Yo language; Takua language; Tariang language; Tây Bồi Pidgin French; Tày language; Tày Tac language; Telue language; Todrah language; Tsʻün-Lao language
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
In the early 21st century, around another four million Vietnamese speakers are found outside of Vietnam, mostly refugees from the Vietnam-American War. Thus Vietnamese is the most spoken language of the Austroasiatic family, being spoken by three times more people than the second most spoken language of the family, Khmer.
Kabardino-Balkaria (state language; with Kabardian and Russian) [72] Bashkir: Bashkortostan (state language; with Russian) [73] Basque: Basque Autonomous Community (with Spanish) Navarre (in some areas with Spanish) Bengali: India (as a "subsidiary official language"} and 20 other official languages; second most spoken Indian Language)
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.
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.