Languages Of The World Map

Languages of the world map

Eberhard david m gary f. Countries often have official languages that are given legal status but there are also additional designations including regional minority national and widely spoken languages that indicate a language is. Some of the most widely spoken languages of the world by population are chinese spanish english bengali hindi.

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Languages of the world.

So who s in the top 10 most spoken languages. You can click on the map to enlarge it. This coloured map depicts countries according to the languages spoken over there.

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Navigation map and statistical summary for the language situation in the world. This coloured map depicts countries according to the languages spoken over there. Hence according to unesco estimates which we visualized in the map above about half of the world s spoken languages will disappear by the end of the century.

The following table contains the top 100 languages by estimated number of native speakers in the 2007 edition of the swedish encyclopedia nationalencyklopedin as census methods in different countries vary to a considerable extent and given that some countries do not record language in their censuses any list of languages by native speakers or total speakers is effectively based on estimates.
Historically aramaic ancient greek latin classical chinese persian sanskrit and classical arabic have also functioned as world languages due to their previous standings as lingua francas over large parts of the world.
Some of the most widely spoken languages of the world by population are chinese spanish english bengali hindi urdu arabic portuguese russian japanese german and french.
The map was created by alberto lucas lopez an infographic journalist for the south china morning post.

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World map of the 25 most spoken languages. Twenty three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. Browse language maps of the world by map title.

There are at least 7 102 known languages alive in the world today.

Well that can be a tricky question.
What languages are most spoken around the world.
The 23 languages make up the native tongue of 4 1 billion people.
While we have a pretty good idea of how many people speak the major languages of the world determining where they re most spoken can be complicated.