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Based on pitch levels sounded with their solfege syllables (a "musical language") although no knowledge of music is required to learn it. Communicationssprache. 1839. Joseph Schipfer. Based on French. Universalglot. 1868. Jean Pirro. An early a posteriori language, predating even Volapük.
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 ...
This is a list of the number of languages by country and dependency according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
Berges Institute. Retrieved 27 May 2023. Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, and it is an official language, either de facto (in practice) or de jure (by law) in 20 countries. Spanish is also an official language in Puerto Rico, Gibraltar, the United Nations, the African Union, and the Organization of American States.
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Other informative or qualifying ...
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 .
New Zealand Sign Language – Sign Language Official language in: New Zealand; Ngbee † – Lingbee Formerly spoken in: the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Nihali – ? Spoken in: Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra in India; Northern Thai – ᨣᩴᩤᨾᩮᩥᩬᨦ Spoken in: the northern area of Thailand, and some other parts of Southeast Asia
Lists of extinct languages. Language Endangerment Status. by UNESCO Atlas of the World's. Languages in Danger category. Extinct (EX) Extinct (EX) ( lists) Endangered. Critically Endangered (CR)