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  2. List of languages by number of native speakers - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of languages by number of native speakers. Current distribution of human language families. All such rankings of human languages ranked by their number of native speakers should be used with caution, because it is not possible to devise a coherent set of linguistic criteria for distinguishing languages in a dialect continuum. [1]

  3. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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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, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic , other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages. [ 1 ]

  4. List of most commonly learned second languages in the United ...

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    Below are the top foreign languages studied in American institutions of higher education (i.e., colleges and universities), based on the Modern Language Association's census of fall 2021 enrollments. "Percentage" refers to each language as a percentage of total U.S. foreign language enrollments. [3]: 49

  5. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Latin [note 3] and Romance languages (languages that evolved from Latin: Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian) Germanic languages (English, Dutch, German, Nordic languages) [note 4] Celtic languages (Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic) [note 5] Baltic languages (Latvian and Lithuanian) Some Slavic languages (Polish, Czech, Slovak ...

  6. List of dialects of English - Wikipedia

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    Dialects can be defined as "sub-forms of languages which are, in general, mutually comprehensible." [1] English speakers from different countries and regions use a variety of different accents (systems of pronunciation) as well as various localized words and grammatical constructions.

  7. List of language names - Wikipedia

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    Middle English † – Englisch, English, Inglis Formerly spoken in: the British Isles; Middle French † – françois, franceis Formerly spoken in: France; Middle High German † – diutsch, tiutsch Formerly spoken in: Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland; Middle Irish † – Gaoidhealg Formerly spoken in: Ireland, Scotland and the ...

  8. List of official languages - Wikipedia

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    India in the state of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry (with 21 other languages, and with [[ Hindi and English language as the link language and official language of Union) Singapore (with English, Chinese and Malay) [25] Sri Lanka (with Sinhala, and with English as a link language) Tammari:

  9. Lists of languages - Wikipedia

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    by name: List of language names (native names) by phylogenetic relation: List of language families (phylogenetic) by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Tungusic languages, List of Turkic languages, List of Uralic languages.