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In 1945, Breton speakers consisted about 75% of the population. In 2018, a study commissioned by the administrative region of Brittany ( Loire-Atlantique included) revealed that 5.5% of Bretons considered that they spoke the language (around 213,000 people). [ 13 ]
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 ]
The majority of today's speakers are more than 60 years old, and Breton is now classified as an endangered language. [ 3 ] At the beginning of the 20th century, half of the population of Lower Brittany knew only Breton; the other half were bilingual.
Country or territory Number of living languages Number of speakers Established Immigrant Total Percent [note 1]Total Mean Median Papua New Guinea 840 0 840 11.81 ...
This is a list of European languages by the number of native speakers in Europe only. List. Rank Name Native speakers ... Breton: 206,000 [92] 84 Extremaduran ...
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 ]
Revitalisation movements in the 2000s led to the reemergence of native speakers for both languages following their adoption by adults and children. [9] [10] By the 21st century, there were roughly one million total speakers of Celtic languages, [11] increasing to 1.4 million speakers by 2010. [12]
Canadian Gaelic dialects of Scottish Gaelic are still spoken by Gaels in parts of Atlantic Canada, primarily on Cape Breton Island and nearby areas of Nova Scotia. In 2011, there were 1,275 Gaelic speakers in Nova Scotia, [20] and 300 residents of the province considered a Gaelic language their "mother tongue." [21]