{"id":2471,"date":"2016-06-23T16:51:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawlinguists.com\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:51:15","slug":"countries-spoken-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawlinguists.com\/it\/countries-spoken-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"The countries with the most spoken languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are thought to speak more than 7,000 languages across the globe. Asia has the most of them, 2,301, followed by Africa with 2,138. There are 1,313 tongues spoken in the Pacific region, followed by 1,064 in the Americas. Europe has 286 different languages.<br \/>\nAccording to Ethnologue, Papua New Guinea has 839 living languages, nearly three times as many as Europe. A living language is defined as having at least one speaker for whom it is their first language. Extinct languages used only as a second language are not included in this ranking.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Europe\u2019s most useful foreign languages&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nThere are 23 officially recognised languages within the European Union while there are more than 60 indigenous regional and minority languages. 54 percent of Europeans are able to have a conversation in one additional language while 25 percent can converse in two.<br \/>\nEnglish is the most widely spoken foreign language in the European Union (38 percent) followed by French and German. It is also the language European citizens consider the most useful second language to learn.<br \/>\n<strong>This chart shows the number of living languages spoken per country in 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lawlinguists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-countries-with-the-most-spoken-languages.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2472\" src=\"https:\/\/lawlinguists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-countries-with-the-most-spoken-languages-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"The countries with the most spoken languages - Lawlinguists\" width=\"415\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawlinguists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-countries-with-the-most-spoken-languages-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lawlinguists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-countries-with-the-most-spoken-languages-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lawlinguists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-countries-with-the-most-spoken-languages.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans are thought to speak more than 7,000 languages across the globe. 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