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In 1945, Breton speakers consisted about 75% of the population. Today, in all of Brittany, at most 20% of the population can speak Breton. 75% of the estimated 200,000 to 250,000 Breton speakers using Breton as an everyday language are over the age of 65.
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.
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 sometimes considered language families instead.
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 ...
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 .
Revitalisation movements in the 2000s led to the reemergence of native speakers for both languages following their adoption by adults and children. [8] [9] By the 21st century, there were roughly one million total speakers of Celtic languages, [10] increasing to 1.4 million speakers by 2010. [11]
Eight of the top ten biggest languages, by number of native speakers, are Indo-European. One of these languages, English, is the de facto world lingua franca, with an estimate of over one billion second language speakers. Indo-European language family has 10 known branches or subfamilies, of which eight are living and two are extinct.