Languages We Translate

Y - Z

Y-Z Languages

  • Yiddish
  • Yoruba
  • Zulu
U - X

U-X Languages

  • Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Uzbek
  • Vietnamese
  • Welsh
  • Xhosa
Q - T

Q-T Languages

  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian (Cyrillic)
  • Serbian (Latin)
  • Sinhala
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Somali
  • Spanish (Mexico)
  • Spanish (Spain)
  • Spanish (Latin America)
  • Swahili
  • Swedish
  • Swiss German
  • Tagalog
  • Tajik
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Thai
  • Tigrinya
  • Turkish
M - P

M-P Languages

  • Macedonian
  • Malay
  • Maltese
  • Marathi
  • Mongolian
  • Montenegrin
  • Nepali
  • Norwegian
  • Oriya
  • Pashto
  • Persian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Portuguese (Portugal)
  • Punjabi
I - L

I-L Languages

  • Icelandic
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Kannada
  • Kazakh
  • Khmer
  • Korean
  • Kurdish
  • Lao
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
E - H

E-H Languages

  • English
  • Estonian
  • Finnish
  • Flemish (Belgian)
  • French (France)
  • French (Canada)
  • Galician
  • Georgian
  • German
  • Greek
  • Gujarati
  • Haitian Creole
  • Hausa
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
A - D

A-D Languages

  • Afrikaans
  • Albanian
  • Amharic
  • Arabic
  • Arabic (Formal Arabic)
  • Arabic (Egyptian)
  • Arabic (Gulf)
  • Arabic (Levantine)
  • Arabic (Maghrebi)
  • Armenian
  • Assamese
  • Azerbaijani
  • Basque
  • Belarusian
  • Bengali
  • Bosnian
  • Bulgarian
  • Burmese
  • Catalan
  • Chinese Mandarin Traditional
  • Chinese Simplified (Mainland China)
  • Chinese Traditional Cantonese
  • Chinese (Shanghainese)
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dari
  • Dutch

NUMBER OF LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD

Some say that the true number of live languages in the world exceeds 7000.

The interesting answer to this question is the fact that there is no one answer to this question as the exact number of languages shall always remain a mystery.

INTERESTING FACTS

Languages in total

According to the latest statistics by Ethnologue, the live number of languages is estimated to be around 7106.

Languages Today

It is interesting to note that the bible is available in more than 2000 languages today. The actual figure of 7106 looks too large a number to be true even though it is nothing but the truth.

Languages that are dying

Ethnologue estimates that around more than 900 languages are in danger to go extinct.

Extinct Languages

The total number of documented languages that went extinct is 129, with 110 dying out in the 20th century, seven languages went extinct in the 2nd millennium BC and 12 languages died out in this century.

Influential Languages

In the order of their Importance ( English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin)

Sign Language

There are interestingly 300 types of sign languages

Reason for disappearance of languages

Languages are fast dying out in the contemporary world. One reason is the fact that major languages are spreading globally, which curbs the need for languages that seem obsolete. More than 25 percent of the world’s languages are spoken only by less than 1000 people. This shows the alarming level of decline that many languages face in terms of decreasing popularity