7,097 languages are spoken today, but just 23 languages account for more than half the world’s population. 7,097 languages are spoken today, but just 23 languages account for more than half the world’s population. read more
One area of particularly high linguistic diversity is Papua-New Guinea, where there are an estimated 832 languages spoken by a population of around 3.9 million. That makes the average number of. Photo credit: Minna Sundberg. speakers around 4,500, possibly the lowest of any area of the world. These languages belong to between 40 and 50 distinct families. read more
There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most popular language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. read more