There are 7,111 languages yet beingness spoken around the world. However at to the lowest degree a 3rd of those languages are inwards danger of dying out. Ethnologue's Living Languages interactive map shows where all 7,111 living languages, every bit of 2018, are spoken around the world.
The linguistic communication markers on the map are colored past times percentage (with locations assigned to main countries). Nearly ii thirds of the world's languages are from Asia in addition to Africa. These ii continents bring the densest concentration of unlike languages. However the vast bulk of the basis talk a European or Asian language. 18.5% of the world's languages are Pacific languages. However on average exclusively virtually 1,000 people talk each of those languages, thus exclusively a real pocket-size per centum of the world's population talk ane of those Pacific languages.
Papua New Republic of Guinea is the terra firma amongst the most unlike languages. There are 840 unlike living languages inwards Papua New Guinea. Republic of Indonesia comes side past times side amongst 710 languages. Nigeria is 3rd amongst 524 languages.
You tin larn to a greater extent than virtually many of the languages on the Living Languages map using the Langscape Map, a map which provides information on around 6,000 languages spoken around the world. You tin click anywhere on the Langscape Map to sentiment which languages are spoken at that location.
As good every bit helping yous detect which languages are spoken where, the map includes information virtually demographics, linguistic communication families in addition to good recordings & text materials. After clicking on a place on the map yous tin pick out whatever of the listed languages to sentiment information virtually it beneath the map.
