Languages of the World by Ethnologue, is an annual reference publication that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.

In 2023, there were around 1.5 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.1 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers at the time of survey.

Hindi and Spanish accounted for the third and fourth most widespread languages that year.

In this article we will be looking at the countries with the most languages across the world.


Here are 10 countries with the most languages

1. Papua New Guinea: 841

2. Indonesia: 720

3. Nigeria: 537

4. India: 458

5. United States: 355

6. Australia: 318

7. China: 307

8. Mexico: 304

9. Cameroon: 279

10. Brazil: 240

yinkus6750:
Surprised that the United States has that much.
Didn't even know they have different ethnics to that extent.
Though a very big country with large expanse of land , almost equivalent in size to a Continent.

yinkus6750:
Surprised that the United States has that much.
Didn't even know they have different ethnics to that extent.
Though a very big country with large expanse of land , almost equivalent in size to a Continent.

yinkus6750:
Surprised that the United States has that much.
Didn't even know they have different ethnics to that extent.
Though a very big country with large expanse of land , almost equivalent in size to a Continent.

Holluwhakemmy:
USA I thought their only language is English

jamesversion:
Why is it only in Nigeria that the multiple languages now constitute a serious problem?