Countries with the largest number of national languages Do you know which countries have registered the largest number of recognized languages? Papua New Guinea – 820 recognized languages – English is the official language. Indonesia – 742 recognized languages – Indonesian is the official language. Nigeria – 516 recognized languages – English is the official language. India – 427 recognized languages – English and Hindi are the official languages. China – 241 recognized lan...

We have taken over the table of languages with the largest number of speakers from the web site of the best known world encyclopaedia http://www.britannica.com/. It is quite interesting in our opinion that the Indo-European languages (Serbian belonging to this family as well) take up a significant percentage on the list.     Language   Number of speakers (in million) Percentage of global population Language family Mandarin 845 12.4 Sino-Tibetan (Chinese) S...

One of the interesting ways to study global languages development is to analyse their use on the internet.  Web site Internetworldstats.com collects information from various sources to create a list of languages used most in the internet according to the number of their users. English (27.3%) Chinese (22.6%) Spanish (7.8%) Japanese (5.3%) Portuguese (4.3%) German (4.0%) Arabic (3.3%) French (3.2%) Russian (2.5%) Korean (2.1%) This list is based on the internet ...