Language in numbers

nd 39- th 6 % 2 nd Language in Numbers: The Most 12 Captivating Statistics FIENSAFI Top 10 worldwide languages In this section, we're going to go through the top 10 most spoken languages of the world. Apart from just naming the language and stating the number of speakers, we'll also identify the country where the primary entry for the language was found, along with the total number of countries that use the language, too. Lahnda 10 119 million speakers Primary country: Pakistan Total number of countries speaking the language: 6 Japanese 128 million speakers Primary country: Japan Total number of countries speaking the language: 2 Russian 8. 154 million speakers Primary country: Russian Federation Total number of countries speaking the language: 19 Portuguese 219 million speakers Primary country: Portugal Total number of countries speaking the language: 13 Bengali 242 million speakers Primary country: Bangladesh Total number of countries speaking the language: 4 Hindi 260 million speakers Primary country: India Total number of countries speaking the language: 5 Arabic 295 million speakers Primary country: Saudi Arabia Total number of countries speaking the language: 57 English 3 372 million speakers Primary country: United Kingdom Total number of countries speaking the language: 106 Spanish 437 million speakers Primary country: Spain Total number of countries speaking the language: 31 Chinese 1,284 million speakers Primary country: China Total number of countries speaking the language: 37 World's major language families Out of 141 language families and 7,099 known languages in the world, six major families stand out and include at least 5% of the world's languages each. Afro-Asiatic 1 family Austronesian family 366 living languages 1,224 living languages 445 million speakers 325 million speakers Indo-European 3 family Niger-Congo family 440 living languages 1,526 living languages 3,077 million speakers 459 million speakers Sino-Tibetan Trans-New family Guinea family 452 living languages 478 living languages 1,355 million speakers 3 million speakers Top 10 languages used online With ov 3.8 billion internet users in the world, we've decided to highlight the top 10 languages these users speak. German 84.7 million users 89.2% of the total population of German language speakers 2.2% of all internet users French 108 million users %3D 26.6% of the total population of French language speakers 2.8% of all the internet users Russian 109.6 million users 76.4% of the total population of Russian language speakers 2.8% of all the internet users Japanese 118.5 million users 94% of the total population of Japanese language speakers 3% of all the internet users Indonesian/Malaysian 157.6 million users 53.4% of the total population of Indonesian/Malaysian language speakers 4.1% of all the internet users Portuguese 158.4 million users 56.2% of the total population of Portuguese language speakers 4.1% of all the internet users Arabic 84.6 million users 43.8% of the total population of Arabic language speakers 4.8% of all the internet users Spanish 312 million users 61.1% of the total population of Spanish language speakers 8% of all the internet users Chinese 770.8 million users 54.1% of the total population of Chinese language speakers 19.8% of all the internet users English 984.7 million users 68.6% of the total population of English language speakers 25.3% of all the internet users 896.7 million of people speak the rest of the languages, which makes the remaining 23.1% of internet users. Content languages used for websites Based on information from 10 million websites, here's the top 10 content languages used online. Russian English 51.3% 6.8% German Spanish 5.1% French Japanese 5.5% 5.6% 4.1% Portuguese 2.6% Italian 2.4% Chinese 2.1% Polish 1.7% The most studied foreign languages in Europe Russian 2% of students of all European students Countries with the biggest percentage of students learning the language: Estonia Latvia Lithuania 67% 57% 33% Italian 3% of students of all European students Countries with the biggest percentage of students learning the language: Malta Croatia Суprus 38% 24% 17% German 19% of students of all European students Countries with the biggest percentage of students learning the language: Luxembourg Slovenia Croatia 100% 65% 62% Spanish 22% of students of all European students Countries with the biggest percentage of students learning the language: France Sweden Denmark 73% 40% 20% French 23% of students of all European students Countries with the biggest percentage of students learning the language: Luxembourg Romania Ireland 100% 83% 59% English 96% of students of all European students Countries with the biggest percentage of students learning the language: Malta Romania Sweden 100% 100% 100% Czech Republic France Austria 100% 100% 100% Finland Croatia 100% 100% Foreign languages studied in U.S. Russian 0.14% of students enrolled Arabic 0.24% Japanese 0.64% American 1.23% Sign Language Latin 1.98% Chinese 2.13% German 3.11% French 12.12% Spanish 69.21% References: • https://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/size • https://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/family • http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm • https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_language/all • http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Foreig n_language_learning_statistics • http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2017/06/s triking_knowledge_gap_about_foreign_language_education.html Created by Custom Writing