Discover the Global Story of Language
Get access to a powerful collection of insights on the world’s living languages—available with an Essentials or Standard subscription. This section brings together key statistics and visualizations to help you understand where languages are spoken, how many people speak them, and their current status around the world.
View SubscriptionsWhat You’ll Discover
- Worldwide Distribution: See how more than 7,000 living languages are spread across continents, countries, and language families.
- Speaker Populations: Explore the size and reach of each language, from the most widely spoken to the most vulnerable.
- Language Vitality: Track development and endangerment levels with the trusted EGIDS scale.
- Top Global Languages: Identify major language families and macrolanguages by number of speakers and geographic spread
- Diversity by Country: Find out which nations are the most linguistically diverse using Greenberg’s Diversity Index.
Why It Matters
- Make informed decisions for research, education, or policy.
- Spot linguistic patterns and areas of concern.
- Gain a clearer understanding of global linguistic diversity at a glance.
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