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  1. Feb 21

    7,111 languages are spoken in the world, as of 2019.

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  2. Jan 31

    We join our colleagues at in celebrating the world's 7,097 languages – and the people who speak them. Your language matters! What is your first language and where is it from?

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  3. 2 Oct 2018

    English is the largest language in the world, if you count both native and non-native speakers. If you count only native speakers, Mandarin Chinese is the largest.

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  4. 27 Oct 2017

    How does language affect Catalonia's bid for independence? Catalan has 87% similarity to Italian, 85% to Portuguese and Spanish.

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  5. 20 Jun 2017

    See exactly where a language is spoken, with our new premium maps. Just launched for Silver subscriptions:

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  6. 28 Feb 2017

    More than twice the number of languages spoken across Europe can be found in Papua New Guinea alone.

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  7. 27 Feb 2017

    Nearly 2/3 of languages are from Africa and Asia.

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  8. 24 Feb 2017

    Pacific languages, along with North and South American, have just 1,000 speakers each on average.

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  9. 24 Feb 2017

    86% of people use Asian and European languages.

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  10. 23 Feb 2017

    7,099 languages are spoken in the world today.

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  11. 21 Feb 2017

    Today to celebrate Mother Language Day, we launch our 20th Edition – over 22,000 changes from last year.

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  12. 23 Jul 2016

    Some countries have hundreds of languages.

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  13. 22 Jul 2016

    Pacific languages, along with North/South American, have just 1,000 speakers each on average

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  14. 20 Jul 2016

    86% of people use Asian and European languages.

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  15. 19 Jul 2016

    Nearly 2/3 of languages are in Africa and Asia.

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  16. 18 Jul 2016

    7,097 languages are spoken in the world today.

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  17. 10 Jul 2015

    Only sixteen people spoke Kunbarlang as of 2006:

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    A speaker of the nearly extinct language Kunbarlang translates his grandfather's stories into English
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  18. 2 Jun 2015

    Language Extinction: It's Real, It's Serious, and It's Hard (but Getting Easier) to Assess

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  19. 1 Jun 2015

    The five largest individual languages, by first-language speakers: 1. Chinese, Mandarin 2. Spanish 3. English 4. Hindi 5. Portuguese

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  20. 1 Jun 2015

    The number of individual languages listed for is 461. Of these, 447 are living and 14 are extinct.

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