We do not know precisely how many languages are spoken in the world. According to the Larousse, there could be as many as 6000. But the Encyclopaedia Universalis only lists 4000.

Who speaks what? Even now the census remains delicate.

It is actually considered that Hindi and English are each spoken by 400 million people. More than a billion Chinese practice a language which has the same characters but which changes in pronunciation.

Among the most used languages, one also finds Russian (280 million), Spanish (250 million), Bengali (160 million), Japanese (125 million), French (105 million).
(Source: INALCO)


german
   

amharic
   

english
   

arabic - woman

arabic - man
 

western armenian
   

eastern armenian
   

bambara
   

chinese - woman

chinese - man
 

singhalese
   

korean
   

spanish

spanish argentin
 

french
   

greek
   

hebrew - man
   

hungarian
   

italian - woman

italian - woman

italian - other way

japanese - woman

japanese - man
 

khmer - woman

khmer - man
 

lingala
   

malgache
   

norwegian - nynorsk
   

persian - man

persian - woman

classic persian

portuguese
   

slovenian
   

soninke
   

swahili
   

tamil - woman

tamil - man
 

tigrinya - woman

tigrinya - man
 

urdu
   

vietnamese
   

wolof
   

yoruba
   
Pronunciations : Anthology

Anthology
   

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