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The World of Languages

An interactive atlas of 26 of the world's great languages: where they're spoken, how they sound, how they work, and the people and culture that keep them alive.

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Hello

English

8,618languages catalogued by Glottolog 5.3
238language families
183isolates: languages with no known relatives
26languages explored in depth here

World map of languages

Each country is coloured by the family of its most widely spoken language (Unicode CLDR population data, Glottolog families). Tap a country to see its main languages. Small island nations appear as dots. Legend numbers count countries and territories; tap a family to highlight it.

Explore 26 languages

English

English

Indo-European · Latin

1.49 billion speakers

hello

Hindi

हिन्दी

Indo-European · Devanagari

611 million speakersFSI III

नमस्ते namaste

Spanish

español

Indo-European · Latin

561 million speakersFSI I

hola

Arabic

العربية

Afro-Asiatic · Arabic

481 million speakersFSI IV

مَرْحَبًا marḥaban

French

français

Indo-European · Latin

334 million speakersFSI I

bonjour

Russian

русский

Indo-European · Cyrillic

210 million speakersFSI III

здра́вствуйте zdrávstvujte

German

Deutsch

Indo-European · Latin

133 million speakersFSI II

hallo

Swahili

Kiswahili

Atlantic-Congo · Latin

95 million speakersFSI II

jambo

Turkish

Türkçe

Turkic · Latin

94 million speakersFSI III

merhaba

Italian

italiano

Indo-European · Latin

66 million speakersFSI I

ciao

Polish

polski

Indo-European · Latin

42.6 million speakersFSI III

cześć

Dutch

Nederlands

Indo-European · Latin

30 million speakersFSI I

hallo

Welsh

Cymraeg

Indo-European · Latin

538,300 speakers

helo

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How many people speak them?

  1. English1.49 billion
  2. Mandarin Chinese1.18 billion
  3. Hindi611 million
  4. Spanish561 million
  5. Arabic481 million
  6. French334 million
  7. Bengali274 million
  8. Portuguese269 million
  9. Indonesian255 million
  10. Russian210 million
  11. German133 million
  12. Japanese126 million
  13. Vietnamese97 million
  14. Swahili95 million
  15. Turkish94 million
  16. Persian82 million
  17. Korean82 million
  18. Thai71 million
  19. Italian66 million
  20. Polish42.6 million
  21. Ukrainian39 million
  22. Dutch30 million
  23. Greek13.1 million
  24. Hebrew9.3 million
  25. Serbian8.2 million
  26. Welsh538,300
Native (L1)Second language (L2)

Ethnologue figures (mostly the 2026 edition, as listed on Wikipedia); smaller languages use the latest figure cited on their Wikipedia or Wikidata entry, shown with its year on each language page. Welsh is from the 2021 census.

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Guess the language

Read a sentence or listen to it, then pick the language. Every sentence is Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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The family tree

Indo-European 16 languages here

Afro-Asiatic 2 languages here

Sino-Tibetan 1 language here

Austronesian 1 language here

Japonic 1 language here

Japanese

Austroasiatic 1 language here

Atlantic-Congo 1 language here

Turkic 1 language here

Koreanic 1 language here

Korean

Tai-Kadai 1 language here

  • Southwestern TaiThai

Classification from Glottolog 5.3, simplified to the branches that separate the languages in this guide.

Guides, lists and games

Most spoken languages in the world

The 2026 ranking by total and native speakers

Hardest languages to learn

For English speakers, by FSI category

Easiest languages to learn

For English speakers, by FSI category

Hello in different languages

With audio and pronunciation

Thank you in different languages

With audio and pronunciation

I love you in different languages

With audio and pronunciation

Days of the week in different languages

And the months too

Language family tree

How the world's languages are related

Writing systems of the world

Alphabets, abjads, syllabaries and characters

Tonal languages

A map of tone around the world

Guess the language

A reading and listening game

Compare two languages

Side by side, from words to grammar

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