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L1+L2: c. 100 million in European Russia, 39 million in Ukraine, 7 million in Belarus, 7 million in Poland, 2 million in Latvia, c. 2 million in the European portion of Kazakhstan, 1.8 million in Moldova, 1.1 million in Estonia. Russian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required).
Languages of Europe. A color-coded map of most languages used throughout Europe. There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. [1][2] Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language.
In total there are 24, with Irish, Bulgarian and Romanian gaining official language status on 1 January 2007, when the last two countries joined the European Union, and Croatian becoming official in 2013. Before Brexit, English was the most spoken language in the EU, being spoken by around 51% of its population.
The most spoken second or foreign languages in the EU were English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. In the table, boxes coloured light blue mean that the language is an official language of the country, while the main language spoken in the country is coloured dark blue. Knowledge of English 75.
The most spoken language of Europe is Russian, which belongs to the group of Slavic languages. Languages that are not official state languages are protected in many European countries by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages .
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 ...
French is the second most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union. [18] Of Europeans who speak other languages natively, approximately one-fifth are able to speak French as a second language. [19] French is the second most taught foreign language in the EU.
Distribution of the French language in Europe. Spoken by 12% of the EU population, French is the second most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union, after German; it is also the third most widely known language of the Union, after English and German (33% of the EU population report to know how to speak English, whilst 22% of ...