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This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. List. Rank Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian: 106,000,000 [1]
The Indo-European language family is descended from Proto-Indo-European, which is believed to have been spoken thousands of years ago.Early speakers of Indo-European daughter languages most likely expanded into Europe with the incipient Bronze Age, around 4,000 years ago (Bell-Beaker culture).
Most spoken languages, Ethnologue, 2024 [4] Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 ...
List of language families (with number of speakers) List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language; Number of languages by country; Languages used on the Internet; List of ISO 639-3 codes; Lists of languages; List of languages by number of speakers in Europe; Global language system; Linguistic ...
English remains by far the most widely spoken foreign language throughout Europe. A total of 95% of students in the EU study English at secondary level [77] and 38% of EU citizens state that they have sufficient skills in English to have a conversation (excluding citizens of Ireland, an English-speaking country). A total of 28% of Europeans ...
German is the main language of approximately 95 to 100 million people in Europe, or 13.3% of all Europeans. This makes it the second most spoken native language in Europe, behind only Russian (with 144 million speakers), and ahead of French (with 66.5 million) and English (with 64.2 million).
Venezuela has declared Spanish the official language, while there are some European and Arabic languages spoken in urban areas, Caribbean English dialects in the Caribbean and indigenous languages spoken in the Guayana department. The prominent additional European languages spoken are Italian and German.
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.