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Berges Institute. Retrieved 27 May 2023. Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, and it is an official language, either de facto (in practice) or de jure (by law) in 20 countries. Spanish is also an official language in Puerto Rico, Gibraltar, the United Nations, the African Union, and the Organization of American States.
Belgium (official language with Dutch and German) sole official language in: Wallonia (except for the Canton of Eupen and the Canton of Sankt Vith, where German is the official language) co-official language in: Brussels (with Dutch)
The colloquial speech is a compromise between Standard German and the dialect. [13] Northern Germany (the Low German area) is characterized by a loss of dialects: standard German is the vernacular, with very few regional features even in informal situations. [12] In Central Germany (the Middle German area) there is a tendency towards dialect ...
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 Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people [ nb 1 ] mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers.
Retrieved 2 April 2018. ^ Dutch at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) ^ Serbo-Croatian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) ^ c. 12 million in European Turkey, 0.6 million in Bulgaria, 0.6 million in Cyprus and Northern Cyprus; and 2,679,765 L1 speakers in other countries in Europe according to a Eurobarometer survey in 2012: https ...
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family— English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish —have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several ...
East Central German. Thuringian. Upper Saxon. North Upper Saxon–South Markish. Silesian. Halcnovian. Wymysorys(with a significant influence from Low Saxon, Dutch, Polish, and Scots) High Prussian. Yiddish(with a significant influx of vocabulary from Hebrewand other languages, and traditionally written in the Hebrew alphabet)