February 21 is World Mother Language Day. Al Jazeera looks at the most spoken languages and which ones are endangered.

Over 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide. In 2025, over 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, yet just a handful dominate global communication. These top languages aren’t only defined by their native ...

Yue Chinese has 86.6 million users and is the 20th most-spoken language in the world. It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family. Belonging to the Turkik language family, Turkish is used as the ...

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Portuguese is a Romance language spoken in Portugal, Brazil, and former Portuguese colonial territories. Galician, a dialect spoken in northwestern Spain, shares close linguistic ties with Portuguese.

What’s fascinating in 2025 is how migration, technology, and pop culture change language spread. Technology is also creating digital dialects and internet slang, with millions blending languages or ...