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What are the native languages of Europe?
Five languages have more than 50 million native speakers in Europe: Russian, French, Italian, German, and English. Russian is the most spoken native language in Europe; and English has the largest number of speakers in total, including some 200 million speakers of English as a second or foreign language.
How many languages are estimated to be indigenous to Europe?
225 indigenous languages
02 There are about 225 indigenous languages in Europe – roughly 3% of the world’s total. 03 Most of the world’s languages are spoken in Asia and Africa. 04 At least half of the world’s population are bilingual or plurilingual, i.e. they speak two or more languages.
What are the top 3 native languages?
Ethnologue (2019, 22nd edition)
| Rank | Language | Language family |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mandarin Chinese | Sino-Tibetan |
| 2 | Spanish | Indo-European |
| 3 | English | Indo-European |
| 4 | Hindi (sanskritised Hindustani) | Indo-European |
What is the second language in Europe?
English
English is the most spoken second language in Europe followed by German and French. Turkish is the official language of Turkey with 70 million native Turkish speakers on the continent.
Which language is most used in Europe?
English is still the most spoken language in the EU by far, with German now spoken by 36% of citizens and French spoken by 29% of the EU’s new smaller population of 446 million people. Italian comes fourth at 18%, followed by 17% for Spanish.
How many different languages are spoken in Europe?
There are almost a hundred different languages spoken natively in Europe, but only about 40 of them have 1 million speakers or more. The map below shows estimates of the total number of native speakers for those languages.
Are there any non Indo-European languages in Europe?
Smaller phyla of Indo-European found in Europe include Hellenic ( Greek, c. 13 million), Baltic ( c. 7 million), Albanian ( c. 5 million), Celtic ( c. 4 million) and Indo-Aryan ( Romani, c. 1.5 million). Of the approximately 45 million Europeans speaking non-Indo-European languages, most speak languages within either the Uralic or Turkic families.
What are the official languages of the EU?
However, the EU, the European union of 28 member states has 24 official languages, but in practice only two are used most often: English and French. English, Nordic languages, German widely spoken.
Are there any Kypchak languages spoken in Europe?
Kypchak languages in Europe include Crimean Tatar, which is spoken in Crimea; Tatar, which is spoken in Tatarstan; Bashkir, which is spoken in Bashkortostan; and Kazakh, which is spoken in Kazakhstan.