Jul 31, 2025 · Determining what are the most spoken languages in the world is a more difficult task than you might imagine. We can say with some confidence that Mandarin, English, Spanish and Arabic …

Apr 29, 2022 · Currently, the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger lists 1,078 languages with fewer than 1,000 speakers. Here’s a closer look at four languages that are under threat of …

Jun 22, 2021 · Italian is naturally the official language of Italy, but it’s also a co-official language of Switzerland (it’s the third most spoken language by the Swiss, after German and French) and of …

There are more than 485 million native speakers of Spanish, making it second only to Chinese in terms of the most spoken languages in the world. English is just behind Spanish, with approximately 373 …

May 26, 2025 · Papua New Guinea has the most languages in the world, however, numbering over 800. That’s more than twice the number of languages spoken in the entire continent of Europe.

Nov 12, 2024 · But which languages are spoken by the most U.S. residents? And if we zoom in on specific sections of the map, what are the influences of these languages? Here’s the list of the most …

Oct 11, 2017 · According to World Atlas, German and Italian are the most widely spoken of these languages, with immigrants from those countries concentrated in the southern and southeastern …

Oct 29, 2024 · We checked in with language expert Benjamin Davies from our Didactics team to determine the six hardest languages to learn for English speakers. They may take a bit longer to …

Jan 21, 2025 · After Scots, the most commonly spoken language is Welsh, which has 560,000 speakers as of the 2011 census. Welsh is the only language in all of the United Kingdom that has a legal status.

Jun 17, 2020 · The next most spoken languages are Hausa (Chadic) with 40 million speakers, Oromo (Cushitic) with 34 million, Amharic (Semitic) with 25 million, and Somali (Cushitic) with 17 million.