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What languages are spoken in France percentages?
Percentage of people in France who speak the languages below as a mother tongue or foreign language.
- French 96.25%
- English 24.21%
- Spanish 9.06%
- German 5.27%
- Italian 3.68%
- Arabic 2.64%
- Portuguese 2.41%
- Polish 0.83%
What are the major languages spoken in France?
French
France/Official languages
What are the percentages of languages?
Ethnologue (2019, 22nd edition)
| Rank | Language | Percentage of world pop. (March 2019) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mandarin Chinese | 11.922% |
| 2 | Spanish | 5.994% |
| 3 | English | 4.922% |
| 4 | Hindi (sanskritised Hindustani) | 4.429% |
What is the percentage of French spoken in the world?
Languages: most-spoken language: English 16.5%, Mandarin Chinese 14.6%, Hindi 8.3%, Spanish 7%, French 3.6%, Arabic 3.6%, Bengali 3.4%, Russian 3.4%, Portuguese 3.3%, Indonesian 2.6% (2020 est.)
How many dialects are in France?
There are actually as many as 28 different accents or dialects for the many different regions of France. They include the Alsatian, Lorrain, Champenois, Picard, Normand, Breton, Tourangeau, Orléanais, Berrichon, Paris, Burgundy, Marseille, Corsica, Lyon, Gascony and Languedoc dialects.
What percentage of France speaks French?
88%
French, the official language, is the first language of 88% of the population. Most of those who speak minority languages also speak French, as the minority languages are given no legal recognition. 3% of the population speak German dialects, predominantly in the eastern provinces of Alsace-Lorraine and Moselle.
Which is the most spoken language in Europe?
English
English is still the most spoken language in the EU by far, with German now spoken by 36% of citizens and French spoken by 29% of the EU’s new smaller population of 446 million people. Italian comes fourth at 18%, followed by 17% for Spanish.
What percentage of the world speaks Amerindian?
Although indigenous peoples make up less than 6% of the global population, they speak more than 4,000 of the world’s languages.
What percent of Chad speaks French?
Languages: French (official), Arabic (official), Sara (in south), more than 150 different languages and (local dialects) Literacy: definition: age 15 and over that can read and write French or Arabic total population: 47 percent male: 56 percent female: 39 percent (2003 estimate.)
How many languages are in Europe?
24
Europe is home to 24 official languages, while as many as 200 languages are spoken across the continent. That might not seem like many, compared to some continents.