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- According to current estimates, there are upwards of 7,000 living languages spoken around the world. The language encyclopedia Ethnologue lists 7,168 in the 2023 edition, to be exact. But that number is shrinking, not growing. Statistics show that about half of all languages could become extinct by the end of the 21st century.
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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, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties, and so they are
LanguageFamilyBranchFirst-language (l1) SpeakersEnglish (excl. creole languages)380 millionMandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...941 millionHindi (excl. Urdu)345 millionSpanish (excl. creole languages)486 millionAccording to the World Atlas of Languages’ methodology, there are 8324 languages, spoken or signed, documented by the governments, public institutions and academic communities; out of 8324, around 7000 languages are still in use.
1 day ago · Estimates from top language experts suggest around 6,500 languages are spoken around the world today, with worldwide historical languages reaching about 31,000. These figures continually shift as new languages are discovered and others fade away.
How many languages are there? It’s estimated that up to 7,000 different languages are spoken around the world. 90% of these languages are used by less than 100,000 people.
This is the list of countries sorted by the number of official languages. Only countries with three or more official languages, either nationally or locally, are included.
According to the World Atlas of Languages' methodology, there are around 8324 languages, spoken or signed, documented by governments, public institutions and academic communities. O ut of 8324, around 7000 languages are still in use.
The World Report of Languages presents the outcomes of work carried out by UNESCO since 2016 working in cooperation with the UNESCO World Atlas of Languages scientific group, which includes a number of the world’s leading scholars in the subject area.
