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Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). 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.
Hungarian has about 13 million [48] [49] [50] native speakers, of whom more than 9.8 million live in Hungary. According to the 2011 Hungarian census, 9,896,333 people (99.6% of the total population) speak Hungarian, of whom 9,827,875 people (98.9%) speak it as a first language, while 68,458 people (0.7%) speak it as a second language. [40]
Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world. [2] [3] Number of living languages and speakers. Country or territory ... Hungary: 18 3 21
Indonesia is the largest bilingual country in the world, with approximately 200 million people speak more than one language. Indonesians speak about 746 different languages. [187] Javanese has the most users in terms of native speakers (about 80 million).
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.
The Indo-European languages include some 449 (SIL estimate, 2018 edition [1]) languages spoken by about 3.5 billion people or more (roughly half of the world population). Most of the major languages belonging to language branches and groups in Europe , and western and southern Asia , belong to the Indo-European language family .
In total, over 42% of the world's population (3.4 billion people) speaks an Indo-European language as a first language—by far the highest of any language family. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an estimate by Ethnologue , with over two-thirds (313) of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch.
It is common for young simultaneous bilinguals to be more proficient in one language than the other. [7] People who speak more than one language have been reported to be better at language learning when compared to monolinguals. [8] Multilingualism in computing can be considered part of a continuum between internationalization and localization.