Explore: Native Languages

first languages in 2018 were: List of languages by total number of speakers List of sign languages by number of native signers List of language families

A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous

some languages of the Himalayas still unclassified. The SIL Ethnologue lists 424 living languages in India. India has not had a national language since

official language, with three states and most territories having adopted English plus one or more other official languages. Overall, 430 languages are spoken

rapports among different native groups. Upon contact with non-Native languages, the usage of native languages and the languages themselves have changed

A foreign language is a language that is not an official language of, nor typically spoken in, a specific country. Native speakers from that country usually

Athabaskan languages at 4,022,000 square kilometres (1,553,000 sq mi). Chipewyan is spoken over the largest area of any North American native language, while

additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign languages. The official language of Indonesia

to 195 languages are spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the archipelago