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Major waves of immigration following the Second World War and in the 21st century considerably increased the number of community languages spoken in Australia. In 2021, 5.8 million people used a language other than English at home. The most common of these languages were Mandarin, Arabic, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Punjabi, Greek, Italian and Hindi ...
Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world ... 5 292 4.11 125,535,200 435,886 4,730 Cameroon: 274 1 275 3.87 10,228,065 38,451 10,000 Australia:
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 ...
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 .
(Top) 1 List of language families. ... Map of the main language families of the world. ... 5 1,314 Australia: Western Daly: 3 21 Australia:
The National Indigenous Languages Survey is a regular Australia-wide survey of the status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages [14] conducted in 2005, [15] 2014 [16] and 2019.
It is the country's common language and de facto national language; while Australia has no official language, English is the first language of the majority of the population, and has been entrenched as the de facto national language since British settlement, being the only language spoken in the home for 72% of Australians. [5] It is also the ...
Pages in category "Languages of Australia" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...