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For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. 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 ...
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 .
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.
World map of linguistic diversity index (linearly proportional to the shading intensity). Data is from the 18th edition of Ethnologue: Languages of the World.. Linguistic diversity index (LDI) may refer to either Greenberg's (language) Diversity Index [1] or the related Index of Linguistic Diversity (ILD) from Terralingua, which measures changes in the underlying LDI over time.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It is the world's most comprehensive catalogue of languages. [ 2 ]
The ranking reflects the most recent month in the data (Sep 2024). Most edited editions of Wikipedia over time. The ranking reflects the most recent month in the data (Sep 2024). The Wikimedia Analytics API provides the most recent data on page views and page edits, among other statistics, for all language editions of Wikipedia.
They are ordered by size. The * column denotes rank change against last year's ranking, ** against last month's ranking. N means a new entry, -means no change. New articles, growth, rank and diff are measured against a full calendar year or month.
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe ... Rank Name Native speakers Total speakers 1 Russian: 106,000,000 [1] 160,000,000 [1 ...