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In this article we will give you some important statistics on languages spoken in the world.
Estimates of the number of extant languages range from 3000 to 7000. A majority of specialists agree on the figure of about 6000 languages.
What do you think of these statistics? They're really incredible, don't you think?
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- FAQ Author: vincent
April 2019
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![]() | sobiaanjumOctober 2019 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. There are 1,213,000,000 people in the world that speak that language. |

vincentSeptember 2020 Thanks for your comment