how many different languages are spoken in the world
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 iâ¦s Mandarin Chinese. There are 1,213,000,000 people in the world that speak that language.
There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world today. Twenty-three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. The 23 languages make up the native tongue of 4.1 billion people. We represent each language within black borders and then provide the numbers of native speakers (in millions) by country. The colour of these countries shows how languages have taken root in many different regions. PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 27 May, 2015, 9:05am. UPDATED : Wednesday, 25 November, 2015, 3:29pm.