World Map By Languages

Some of the most widely spoken languages of the world by population are chinese spanish english bengali hindi urdu arabic portuguese russian japanese german and french.

World map by languages. World language map chinese mandarin is the most widely spoken language in the world. 369 7 million 898 4 million 1 268 billion. Hence according to unesco estimates which we visualized in the map above about half of the world s spoken languages will disappear by the end of the century. 463 0 million 74 9 million.

What languages are the most commonly spoken around the world. Twenty three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. They re also a unique way to map the world not through landmasses or geopolitical borders but through mother tongues. The map was created by alberto lucas lopez an infographic journalist for the south china morning post.

View a high resolution version of today s graphic by clicking here. A world language is one that is spoken internationally and learned and spoken by numerous people as a second language. List of territorial entities where english is an official language. Languages provide a window into culture and history.

77 3 million 199 3 million 276 6 million. Today s infographic from alberto lucas lopez condenses the 7 102 known living languages today into a stunning visualization with individual colors. List of territorial entities where french is an official language. Well that can be a tricky question.

Countries often have official languages that are given legal status but there are also additional designations including regional minority national and widely spoken languages that indicate a. While we have a pretty good idea of how many people speak the major languages of the world determining where they re most spoken can be complicated. You can click on the map to enlarge it. Some of the other languages such as spanish english arabic portuguese russian japanese german french bengali hindi and urdu also have considerable number of speakers and thus are marked on the map in accordance with the regions they are spoken in.

There are at least 7 102 known languages alive in the world today. Global distribution map english. The tower of babel. The 23 languages make up the native tongue of 4 1 billion people.

The following table contains the top 100 languages by estimated number of native speakers in the 2007 edition of the swedish encyclopedia nationalencyklopedin as census methods in different countries vary to a considerable extent and given that some countries do not record language in their censuses any list of languages by native speakers or total speakers is effectively based on estimates. World map of the 25 most spoken languages.