What is the most widely spoken mother tongue in the world?

What is the most widely spoken mother tongue in the world?

English
Globally, English remains the most widely spoken language with 1.13 billion speakers in 2019, followed by Mandarin with 1.17 billion, according to the online database Ethnologue. Hindi is third with 615 million speakers while Bengali is seventh with 265 million.

What are 10 major languages of the world and where are they spoken?

The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World

1. Chinese — 1.3 Billion Native Speakers.
2. Spanish — 471 Million Native Speakers.
3. English — 370 Million Native Speakers.
4. Hindi — 342 Million Native Speakers.
5. Arabic — 315 Million Native Speakers.
6. Portuguese — 232 Million Native Speakers.
7. Bengali — 229 Million Native Speakers.

What is the number 1 spoken language in the world?

English is the largest language in the world, if you count both native and non-native speakers. If you count only native speakers, Mandarin Chinese is the largest. Mandarin Chinese is the largest language in the world when counting only first language (native) speakers.

What is the mother of all languages?

Sanskrit
Known as ‘the mother of all languages,’ Sanskrit is the dominant classical language of the Indian subcontinent and one of the 22 official languages of India. It is also the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.

What languages have died out?

Dead Languages

• Latin language. Latin is by far the most well-known dead language.
• Coptic. Coptic is what remained of the ancient Egyptian languages.
• Biblical Hebrew. Biblical Hebrew is not to be confused with Modern Hebrew, a language that is still very much alive.
• Sumerian.
• Akkadian.
• Sanskrit Language.

Where can I find the number of languages spoken in a country?

The CIA Word Factbook has a field listing for languages spoken per country and percentage of population that speaks it. For finer grain, you can Google ‘language spoken home dataset’. This will find census datasets related to the distribution of languages spoken.

Where can I find language spoken home dataset?

For finer grain, you can Google ‘language spoken home dataset’. This will find census datasets related to the distribution of languages spoken. Below are some examples: Countries of the World Includes country language attribute for 249 countries – I believe either point or poly; has points for admin1 if you are looking subnational

Which is the best site for language data?

The go-to site for linguists who are looking for language data (including e.g. their families, iso codes, position etc.) is glottolog.org. They have all their data available for download in several formats. wals.info is also useful, but that one uses a more restricted set of languages that might contain less sub-national languages.

Where can I find data on indigenous languages?

Indigenous living languages from Worldmapper Primarily sourced from ethnologue. Indigeneous languages of each country as Excel file, no sub-country data. You may want to look at the language data from Ethnologue at http://www.ethnologue.com