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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. For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties, and so ...
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
An actual ranking of the most common sites would likely require analysis by a computer program. Note that the numbers in this table (if current) will be 1 higher than the number shown at the top of the corresponding Wikipedia article, since that number only counts other languages, excluding English.
The language family of the world that has the most speakers is the Indo-European languages, spoken by 46% of the world's population. [137] This family includes major world languages like English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, and Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu).
SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages of the World lists over 7,100 spoken and signed languages. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns codes for most languages; see ISO 639. List of ISO 639-1 codes – two-letter codes (184 major languages) List of ISO 639-2 codes – three-letter codes
The list also includes extinct languages. For a published list of languages, see ISO 639-1 (list of ISO 639 language codes for 136 major languages), or for a more inclusive list, see ISO 639-3 (list of ISO 639-3 codes, 7,874 in total as of June 2013).
Kabardino-Balkaria (state language; with Kabardian and Russian) [72] Bashkir: Bashkortostan (state language; with Russian) [73] Basque: Basque Autonomous Community (with Spanish) Navarre (in some areas with Spanish) Bengali: India (as a "subsidiary official language"} and 20 other official languages; second most spoken Indian Language)
Wikipedia has several articles cataloging the languages of the world in different ways: See also. Language; Category:Lists of languages; This page was ...