{"id":9428,"date":"2021-02-09T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T08:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tatutrad.net\/what-languages-are-spoken-in-europe"},"modified":"2024-10-29T06:39:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T05:39:22","slug":"what-languages-are-spoken-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tatutrad.net\/en\/what-languages-are-spoken-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"What Languages are Spoken in Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Europe is home to hundreds of languages, including some, such as Russian or English, which have the greatest number of speakers in the world.<\/p>\n\n<p><p><b>Most languages spoken in Europe belong to the family of Indo-European languages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and within this family, 94% of speakers belong to the Romance, Germanic and Slavic branches.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five of these languages have <\/span><b>over 50\u00a0million native speakers in Europe: French, Italian, German, English and Russian<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p>We\u2019ll now look at the families of the languages spoken in Europe:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-table-of-contents uagb-toc__align-left uagb-toc__columns-1  uagb-block-ec04805b      \"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-scroll= \"1\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-offset= \"30\"\n\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"uagb-toc__wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"uagb-toc__title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTable Of Contents\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"uagb-toc__list-wrap \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ol class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#indo-european-languages\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">Indo-European languages<\/a><ul class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#romance-languages\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">Romance languages<\/a><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#germanic-languages\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">Germanic languages<\/a><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#other-indo-european-languages\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">Other Indo-European languages<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#non-indo-european-languages\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">Non-Indo-European languages<\/a><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#languages-of-the-european-union\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">Languages of the European Union<\/a><ul class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#multilingualism-in-the-european-union\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">Multilingualism in the European Union<\/a><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#regional-and-minority-languages-in-the-european-union\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">Regional and minority languages in the European Union<\/a><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#english-the-most-spoken-language-in-the-eu\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">English, the most spoken language in the EU<\/a><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><li class=\"uagb-toc__list\"><a href=\"#more-than-half-of-europeans-are-bilingual\" class=\"uagb-toc-link__trigger\">More than half of Europeans are bilingual<\/a><\/ul><\/ul><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Indo-European languages<\/h2>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Romance languages<\/h3>\n\n<p><p><b>Some 215\u00a0million Europeans are native speakers of Romance languages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; there are most speakers of French (72\u00a0million), Italian (65\u00a0million), Spanish (40\u00a0million), Romanian (24\u00a0million), Portuguese (10\u00a0million), Catalan (9\u00a0million), Sicilian (5\u00a0million), Venetian (4\u00a0million), Galician (2\u00a0million), Sardinian (1\u00a0million), Occitan (500,000\u00a0speakers) and other smaller communities that speak other more minority languages.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Germanic languages<\/h3>\n\n<p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Germanic languages are mainly present in Western, Southern and Central Europe, totalling around 210\u00a0million native speakers. <\/span><b>The dominant Germanic language in Europe is German<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (95\u00a0million), followed by English (70\u00a0million), Dutch (24\u00a0million), Swedish (10\u00a0million), Danish (6\u00a0million) and Norwegian (5\u00a0million).<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Indo-European languages<\/h3>\n\n<p>The Indo-European language family encompasses even more languages, for example, Russian (110 million), Greek (13 million), Lithuanian (3 million), Latvian (2 million), Albanian (5 million), Welsh (700,000 speakers), Breton (200,000 speakers), Irish (140,000 speakers) and Gaelic (50,000 speakers).<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Non-Indo-European languages<\/h2>\n\n<p>Non-Indo-European languages include Finnish (5 million), Estonian (1 million) and Hungarian (13 million).<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tatutrad.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/En-la-union-europea-hay-24-lenguas-oficiales-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4166\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Languages of the European Union<\/h2>\n\n<p>Up until now we\u2019ve talked about the languages spoken in Europe as a continent; now we\u2019re going to focus on the languages spoken in the European Union.<\/p>\n\n<p>As you probably already know, the European Union is a political organisation comprising 27 of the 50 countries that make up the European continent.&#13;\n<\/p>\n\n<p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we can see on their official web page, <\/span><b>the European Union has 24\u00a0official languages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which have been progressively added to over the years with new countries joining the organisation:<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p>2007: Bulgarian<\/p>\n\n<p>2013: Croatian<\/p>\n\n<p>2004: Czech<\/p>\n\n<p>1973: Danish<\/p>\n\n<p>1958: Dutch<\/p>\n\n<p>1973: English<\/p>\n\n<p>2004: Estonian<\/p>\n\n<p>1995: Finnish<\/p>\n\n<p>1958: French<\/p>\n\n<p>1958: German<\/p>\n\n<p>1981: Greek<\/p>\n\n<p>2004: Hungarian<\/p>\n\n<p>2007: Irish<\/p>\n\n<p>1958: Italian<\/p>\n\n<p>2004: Latvian<\/p>\n\n<p>2004: Lithuanian<\/p>\n\n<p>2004: Maltese<\/p>\n\n<p>2004: Polish<\/p>\n\n<p>1986: Portuguese<\/p>\n\n<p>2007: Romanian<\/p>\n\n<p>2004: Slovak<\/p>\n\n<p>2004: Slovenian<\/p>\n\n<p>1986: Spanish<\/p>\n\n<p>1995: Swedish<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Multilingualism in the European Union<\/h3>\n\n<p><p><b>The European Union has a multilingualism policy that is part of one of its founding principles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and which has the following aims:<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p>&#8211; to communicate with its citizens in their own languages<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8211; to protect Europe&#8217;s rich linguistic diversity<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8211; to promote language learning in Europe<\/p>\n\n<p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EU\u2019s Charter of Fundamental Rights states that <\/span><b>every citizen of the EU has the right to use any of the 24\u00a0official languages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to contact the EU institutions, and they are obliged to respond in the same language.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p>For this reason, all EU law and legal documents are published in all the official languages, except for Irish due to an issue surrounding linguistic resources.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Regional and minority languages in the European Union<\/h3>\n\n<p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to the 24\u00a0official languages, <\/span><b>more than 60\u00a0indigenous regional or minority languages coexist in the European Union, represented by around 40\u00a0million speakers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Some examples of these regional languages are Catalan, Basque, Frisian, Saami and Yiddish.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tatutrad.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/el-ingles-es-el-idioma-mas-hablado-de-la-union-europea-1024x658.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4171\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">English, the most spoken language in the EU<\/h3>\n\n<p>If you were asked what language you think is the most widely spoken in Europe, no doubt you would say English and you would be completely right. This comes as no surprise if we consider the extensive use of English as an international business communication language.<\/p>\n\n<p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a survey carried out by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/es\/ip_12_679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">European Commission in 2012<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>the five most widely spoken languages in the European Union were English (38%), French (12%), German (11%), Spanish (7%) and Russian (5%)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p>Despite Russian not being one of the 24 official languages, it is spoken by a significant number of people in the EU due to its proximity to the country where the language originates and its historical ties with member states such as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More than half of Europeans are bilingual<\/h3>\n\n<p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s very rare to find people who are truly bilingual, except for in Europe where <\/span><b>most of its inhabitants (54%) are<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This means that they can speak to you in another language that isn\u2019t their mother tongue. But it doesn\u2019t end there; <\/span><b>25% of Europeans are trilingual<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, meaning they can communicate without any problem in three different languages. And if three languages seem like a lot, just think that <\/span><b>10% of Europeans speak four languages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s therefore no wonder that there are so many translators and linguists of European origin who master and can translate and interpret into more than one language.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sources consulted for this article: <\/p>\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/european-union.europa.eu\/principles-countries-history\/languages_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Official website of the European Union<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Languages_of_Europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wikipedia<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most languages spoken in Europe belong to the family of Indo-European languages and within this family, 94% of speakers belong to the Romance, Germanic and Slavic branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[98,97],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-9428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internationalization","tag-anecdotes","tag-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Languages are Spoken in Europe? 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