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  2. List of languages by number of native speakers - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, many commonly accepted languages, including German, Italian, and English, encompass varieties that are not mutually intelligible. [1] While Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic, other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages. [3]

  3. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. English language - Wikipedia

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    The countries where English is spoken can be grouped into different categories according to how English is used in each country. The "inner circle" [72] countries with many native speakers of English share an international standard of written English and jointly influence speech norms for English around the world. English does not belong to ...

  5. Languages of the United States - Wikipedia

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    German was the 13th most common language spoken at home, according to the 2020 ACS survey. If German-related dialects such as Yiddish and varieties such as Pennsylvania German (Amish) are included, German ranks among the top ten languages spoken in U.S. homes. (The ACS lists both Yiddish and Pennsylvania German separately from German.)

  6. List of countries by number of languages - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue ... 40 0.56 143,010 3,972 ... 20 1 21 0.30 1,040,816 ...

  7. List of literary works by number of translations - Wikipedia

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    English: 35 The Good Soldier Švejk: Jaroslav Hašek: 1923: 58 [40] Czech: 36 The Tirukkural: Valluvar: c. 300 BCE – c. 450 CE See Dating the Tirukkural: 57 [41] languages, with 350 translations in total: Old Tamil: 37 The Lord of the Rings: J. R. R. Tolkien: 1954–1955: 57 [42] languages, with 87 translations in total: English: 38 Things ...

  8. English-speaking world - Wikipedia

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    The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the early 2000s, between one and two billion people spoke English, [1] [2] making it the largest language by number of speakers, the third largest language by number of native speakers and the most widespread language geographically.

  9. Multilingualism - Wikipedia

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    Text is written in six languages: English, Filipino, Cebuano, Chinese, Korean, and Russian, from top to bottom. The name of a train found in South India written in four languages: Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, and English. Boards like this are common on trains that pass through two or more states where the languages spoken are different.