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What continents have the most indigenous languages?
What countries have the most languages?
What are the largest language families?
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Browse by Language Name | Ethnologue
Browse the languages of the world by language name. This web edition of the Ethnologue may be cited as: Eb David M., Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2020.Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Twenty-third
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What continents have the most indigenous languages? | Ethnologue
86% of people use Asian or European languages. Above we see where languages come from – mostly in Africa, the Pacific. But how many people actually speak them? The vast majority of us use Asian or European language may not be surprising given the sheer population of certain areas as well as colonial expansion in recent centur www.ethnologue.com
What countries have the most languages? | Ethnologue
Languages are spread unequally throughout the world. That trend is clear whether we’re looking at whole regi individual countries.. To the right are the ten countries where the most languages are spoken today, including established and immigrant languages. www.ethnologue.com
What are the largest language families? | Ethnologue
These six families also make up five-sixths of the world’s population. Based on speaker count, Indo-European a Tibetan are the largest two language families, with over 4.6 billion speakers between them. The two most spok languages are in these families – English is classified as Indo-European, and Mandarin Chinese is classified as Si Tibetan. www.ethnologue.com
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