LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD

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The most spoken languages
 worldwide 2021

Published by Statista Research Department, Mar 3, 2021

In 2021, there were around 1.35 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.12 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers at the time of survey. Hindi and Spanish accounted for the third and fourth most widespread languages that year.

Languages in the United States

The United States does not have an official language, but the country uses English, specifically American English, for legislation, regulation and other official pronouncements. America is a land of immigrations and the languages spoken in the United States vary as a result of the multi-cultural population. The second most common language spoken in the United States is Spanish or Spanish Creole, which over 41,75 million people spoke at home in 2019. There were also 3.49 million Chinese speakers,1.76 million Tagalog speakers and 1.57 million Vietnamese speakers counted in the United States that year.

Different languages at home

The percentage of people in the United States speaking a language other than English at home varies from state to state. The state with the highest percentage of population speaking a language other than English is California. bout 44.5 percent of California’s population was speaking a language other than English at home in 2019.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-languages-worldwide/. Accessed on March 29, 2021.