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  1. The most spoken languages worldwide 2025

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    Updated Apr 14, 2025
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    Statista (2025). The most spoken languages worldwide 2025 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-languages-worldwide/
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    Apr 14, 2025
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    2025
    Area covered
    World
    Description

    In 2025, there were around 1.53 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.18 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers at the time of survey. Hindi and Spanish accounted for the third and fourth most widespread languages that year. Languages in the United States The United States does not have an official language, but the country uses English, specifically American English, for legislation, regulation, and other official pronouncements. The United States is a land of immigration, and the languages spoken in the United States vary as a result of the multicultural population. The second most common language spoken in the United States is Spanish or Spanish Creole, which over than 43 million people spoke at home in 2023. There were also 3.5 million Chinese speakers (including both Mandarin and Cantonese),1.8 million Tagalog speakers, and 1.57 million Vietnamese speakers counted in the United States that year. Different languages at home The percentage of people in the United States speaking a language other than English at home varies from state to state. The state with the highest percentage of population speaking a language other than English is California. About 45 percent of its population was speaking a language other than English at home in 2023.

  2. Ranking of languages spoken at home in the U.S. 2023

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    Updated Apr 14, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Ranking of languages spoken at home in the U.S. 2023 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/183483/ranking-of-languages-spoken-at-home-in-the-us-in-2008/
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    Time period covered
    2023
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    In 2023, around 43.37 million people in the United States spoke Spanish at home. In comparison, approximately 998,179 people were speaking Russian at home during the same year. The distribution of the U.S. population by ethnicity can be accessed here. A ranking of the most spoken languages across the world can be accessed here.

  3. Spoken Language Statistics

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    Alex Bampoulidis; Alex Bampoulidis (2024). Spoken Language Statistics [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.55708
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    Aug 4, 2024
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    Authors
    Alex Bampoulidis; Alex Bampoulidis
    License

    CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedicationhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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    Description

    Find out which are the top 10 most spoken languages in the world according to GeoNames and preserve the data containing the information needed, as some countries get split or merged, some languages get extinct, etc.

  4. Common languages used for web content 2025, by share of websites

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    Updated Feb 11, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Common languages used for web content 2025, by share of websites [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/262946/most-common-languages-on-the-internet/
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    Feb 11, 2025
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    Feb 2025
    Area covered
    Worldwide
    Description

    As of February 2025, English was the most popular language for web content, with over 49.4 percent of websites using it. Spanish ranked second, with six percent of web content, while the content in the German language followed, with 5.6 percent. English as the leading online language United States and India, the countries with the most internet users after China, are also the world's biggest English-speaking markets. The internet user base in both countries combined, as of January 2023, was over a billion individuals. This has led to most of the online information being created in English. Consequently, even those who are not native speakers may use it for convenience. Global internet usage by regions As of October 2024, the number of internet users worldwide was 5.52 billion. In the same period, Northern Europe and North America were leading in terms of internet penetration rates worldwide, with around 97 percent of its populations accessing the internet.

  5. Number of native Spanish speakers worldwide 2024, by country

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    Updated Jan 15, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Number of native Spanish speakers worldwide 2024, by country [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/991020/number-native-spanish-speakers-country-worldwide/
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    Jan 15, 2025
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    Area covered
    World
    Description

    Mexico is the country with the largest number of native Spanish speakers in the world. As of 2024, 132.5 million people in Mexico spoke Spanish with a native command of the language. Colombia was the nation with the second-highest number of native Spanish speakers, at around 52.7 million. Spain came in third, with 48 million, and Argentina fourth, with 46 million. Spanish, a world language As of 2023, Spanish ranked as the fourth most spoken language in the world, only behind English, Chinese, and Hindi, with over half a billion speakers. Spanish is the official language of over 20 countries, the majority on the American continent, nonetheless, it's also one of the official languages of Equatorial Guinea in Africa. Other countries have a strong influence, like the United States, Morocco, or Brazil, countries included in the list of non-Hispanic countries with the highest number of Spanish speakers. The second most spoken language in the U.S. In the most recent data, Spanish ranked as the language, other than English, with the highest number of speakers, with 12 times more speakers as the second place. Which comes to no surprise following the long history of migrations from Latin American countries to the Northern country. Moreover, only during the fiscal year 2022. 5 out of the top 10 countries of origin of naturalized people in the U.S. came from Spanish-speaking countries.

  6. MCB_languages_county

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    Updated Oct 1, 2019
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    Marisol Brewster (2019). MCB_languages_county [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/mcbrewster/mcb-languages-county/code
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    Oct 1, 2019
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    Authors
    Marisol Brewster
    Description

    Context

    This is a dataset I found online through the Google Dataset Search portal.

    Content

    The American Community Survey (ACS) 2009-2013 multi-year data are used to list all languages spoken in the United States that were reported during the sample period. These tables provide detailed counts of many more languages than the 39 languages and language groups that are published annually as a part of the routine ACS data release. This is the second tabulation beyond 39 languages since ACS began.

    The tables include all languages that were reported in each geography during the 2009 to 2013 sampling period. For the purpose of tabulation, reported languages are classified in one of 380 possible languages or language groups. Because the data are a sample of the total population, there may be languages spoken that are not reported, either because the ACS did not sample the households where those languages are spoken, or because the person filling out the survey did not report the language or reported another language instead.

    The tables also provide information about self-reported English-speaking ability. Respondents who reported speaking a language other than English were asked to indicate their ability to speak English in one of the following categories: "Very well," "Well," "Not well," or "Not at all." The data on ability to speak English represent the person’s own perception about his or her own ability or, because ACS questionnaires are usually completed by one household member, the responses may represent the perception of another household member.

    These tables are also available through the Census Bureau's application programming interface (API). Please see the developers page for additional details on how to use the API to access these data.

    Acknowledgements

    Sources:

    Google Dataset Search: https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch

    2009-2013 American Community Survey

    Original dataset: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2013/demo/2009-2013-lang-tables.html

    Downloaded From: https://data.world/kvaughn/languages-county

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  7. Most common languages spoken in India 2011

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    Updated Jun 24, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Most common languages spoken in India 2011 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/616508/most-common-languages-india/
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    Jun 24, 2025
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    2011
    Area covered
    India
    Description

    Hindi, with over *** million native speakers was the most spoken language across Indian homes, followed by Bengali with ** million speakers, as of 2011 census data. English native speakers accounted for about *** thousand during the measured time period. The colonial rule in India One of the most remarkable and widespread legacies that the British colonial rule left behind was the English language. Before independence, the English language was the solely used for higher education and in government and administrative processes. Post-independence, however, and till today, Hindi was claimed as the language with official government patronage. This lead to resistance from the southern states of India, where Hindi did not have prominence. Consequently, the Official Languages Act of 1963, was enacted by the parliament, which ensured the continued use of English for official purposes in conjunction with Hindi. Multi-linguistic cultures India has approximately ** major languages that are written in about ** different scripts. While the country’s official languages are both, English and Hindi, Hindi remains the most preferred language used online especially in the northern rural areas. The use of English is becoming increasingly popular in the urban areas. In addition, almost every state in India has its own official language that is studied in primary and secondary school as an obligatory second language. Among the most prominent are Bengali, Marathi, and Telugu.

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    Languages of the Middle East

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    Updated Mar 16, 2012
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    MEMIROnline (2012). Languages of the Middle East [Dataset]. https://hub.arcgis.com/items/d29dbbe0ce4342ddae47c3b33bc0be94
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    Mar 16, 2012
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    MEMIROnline
    Area covered
    Middle East,
    Description

    ​ “Middle East” LanguagesIndependent StudyFebruary 16, 2012Amanda DoyleCo-authors: Kevin Ragborg, Marc Puricelli, and Maria LindellDespite the relatively small geographical size of the “Middle East,” there is great diversity of the spoken languages within the region. The most common spoken language of the “Middle East” is Arabic, a Semitic language closely related to Hebrew that was developed beginning in the 8th century BC. Currently, around 280 million people speak Arabic in the regions of the “Middle East” and North Africa encompassing the countries between Morocco to Iraq. The Qur’an, the central religious text of Islam, is only allowed to be written in Arabic, giving the language a very important role in the Muslim world. Different from some other languages, there are many different dialects of Arabic, which can make it difficult for speakers from different areas of the Arabic speaking world to understand one another3. The next major language of the Middle East is Persian or Farsi, the national language of Iran. Persian is spoken by an estimated 65 million people, most of which are concentrated in Iran but there are significant Persian speaking populations in Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates. Younger than Arabic, Persian was developed around 400 BC and is closely related to Hindi and Urdu. There are three main dialects of Persian: Iranian Persian (spoken in Iran), Dari Persian (spoken in Afghanistan) and Tajik Persian (spoken in Tajikistan.) 4Hebrew is spoken by roughly 3.8 million people in the “Middle East,” but this population is now concentrated in Israel and the neighboring countries. Though, not all Jews, even Israeli Jews, speak Hebrew since centuries ago, Hebrew ceased being a working language; however, due to Jewish nationalism, the Zionist movement, and the need for a unifying language between immigrants into Israel the language has been revived. Turkish, the national language of Turkey and the main spoken language of the Turkish nation is also spoken by roughly 170,000 people in Cyprus and by minorities in the Fertile Crescent area. Kurdish is the language that unifies the Kurds, a nation that spans a large geographical range from Beirut to Afghanistan. Additionally, almost all countries in the “Middle East” have several minority languages, such as Berber, spoken by many North Africans, including some parts of northwestern Egypt. Azeri, a minority Turkic language, is often spoken in northwestern Iran. Turkish tribes in the southern Zagros Mountains in Iran speak Qashqai, while Baluchi is spoken in southeastern and eastern Iran by the Baluch peoples and migrants in United Arab Emirates and Oman. Nomadic tribes in the Zagros Mountains can be found speaking Luri. Lastly, Armenian, due to its historical significance is spoken by minorities in urban centers such as Beirut, Damascus, Aleppo, Tehran, and Cairo1.Works Cited (1) Held, Colbert C. Middle East Patterns – Places, Peoples and Politics. 2nd ed. Westview Press, Inc.: Boulder, Co, 1994, pgs. 76-80.(2) The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. 2011. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2098.html?countryName=Jordan&countryCode=jo&regionCode=me&#jo.(3) "Learn Arabic - All About the Arabic Language." Innovative Language Learning. Web. 28 Mar. 2011. http://innovativelanguage.com/languagelearning/arabic-language.(4) UCLA, Language Materials Projects. "Persian Language." Iran Chamber Society. Web. 29 Mar. 2011. http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/articles/persian_language.php.

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    GlobalPhone Polish

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    Updated Jun 26, 2017
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    ELRA (European Language Resources Association) and its operational body ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency) (2017). GlobalPhone Polish [Dataset]. https://catalogue.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0320/
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    Jun 26, 2017
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    ELRA (European Language Resources Association)
    ELRA (European Language Resources Association) and its operational body ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency)
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    https://catalogue.elra.info/static/from_media/metashare/licences/ELRA_END_USER.pdfhttps://catalogue.elra.info/static/from_media/metashare/licences/ELRA_END_USER.pdf

    https://catalogue.elra.info/static/from_media/metashare/licences/ELRA_VAR.pdfhttps://catalogue.elra.info/static/from_media/metashare/licences/ELRA_VAR.pdf

    Description

    The GlobalPhone corpus developed in collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was designed to provide read speech data for the development and evaluation of large continuous speech recognition systems in the most widespread languages of the world, and to provide a uniform, multilingual speech and text database for language independent and language adaptive speech recognition as well as for language identification tasks. The entire GlobalPhone corpus enables the acquisition of acoustic-phonetic knowledge of the following 22 spoken languages: Arabic (ELRA-S0192), Bulgarian (ELRA-S0319), Chinese-Mandarin (ELRA-S0193), Chinese-Shanghai (ELRA-S0194), Croatian (ELRA-S0195), Czech (ELRA-S0196), French (ELRA-S0197), German (ELRA-S0198), Hausa (ELRA-S0347), Japanese (ELRA-S0199), Korean (ELRA-S0200), Polish (ELRA-S0320), Portuguese (Brazilian) (ELRA-S0201), Russian (ELRA-S0202), Spanish (Latin America) (ELRA-S0203), Swahili (ELRA-S0375), Swedish (ELRA-S0204), Tamil (ELRA-S0205), Thai (ELRA-S0321), Turkish (ELRA-S0206), Ukrainian (ELRA-S0377), and Vietnamese (ELRA-S0322).In each language about 100 sentences were read from each of the 100 speakers. The read texts were selected from national newspapers available via Internet to provide a large vocabulary. The read articles cover national and international political news as well as economic news. The speech is available in 16bit, 16kHz mono quality, recorded with a close-speaking microphone (Sennheiser 440-6). The transcriptions are internally validated and supplemented by special markers for spontaneous effects like stuttering, false starts, and non-verbal effects like laughing and hesitations. Speaker information like age, gender, occupation, etc. as well as information about the recording setup complement the database. The entire GlobalPhone corpus contains over 450 hours of speech spoken by more than 2100 native adult speakers.Data is shortened by means of the shorten program written by Tony Robinson. Alternatively, the data could be delivered unshorten.The Polish part of GlobalPhone was collected from altogether 102 native speakers in Poland, of which 48 speakers were female and 54 speakers were male. The majority of speakers are between 20 and 39 years old, the age distribution ranges from 18 to 65 years. Most of the speakers are non-smokers in good health conditions. Each speaker read on average about 100 utterances from newspaper articles, in total we recorded 10130 utterances. The speech was recorded using a close-talking microphone Sennheiser HM420 in a push-to-talk scenario. All data were recorded at 16kHz and 16bit resolution in PCM format. The data collection took place in small and large rooms, about half of the recordings took place under very quiet noise conditions, the other half with moderate background noise. Information on recording place and environmental noise conditions are provided in a separate speaker session file for each speaker. The text data used for reco...

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    GlobalPhone Portuguese (Brazilian)

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    GlobalPhone Portuguese (Brazilian) [Dataset]. https://live.european-language-grid.eu/catalogue/corpus/1912
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    Area covered
    Brazil
    Description

    The GlobalPhone corpus developed in collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was designed to provide read speech data for the development and evaluation of large continuous speech recognition systems in the most widespread languages of the world, and to provide a uniform, multilingual speech and text database for language independent and language adaptive speech recognition as well as for language identification tasks.

    The entire GlobalPhone corpus enables the acquisition of acoustic-phonetic knowledge of the following 22 spoken languages: Arabic (ELRA-S0192), Bulgarian (ELRA-S0319), Chinese-Mandarin (ELRA-S0193), Chinese-Shanghai (ELRA-S0194), Croatian (ELRA-S0195), Czech (ELRA-S0196), French (ELRA-S0197), German (ELRA-S0198), Hausa (ELRA-S0347), Japanese (ELRA-S0199), Korean (ELRA-S0200), Polish (ELRA-S0320), Portuguese (Brazilian) (ELRA-S0201), Russian (ELRA-S0202), Spanish (Latin America) (ELRA-S0203), Swahili (ELRA-S0375), Swedish (ELRA-S0204), Tamil (ELRA-S0205), Thai (ELRA-S0321), Turkish (ELRA-S0206), Ukrainian (ELRA-S0377), and Vietnamese (ELRA-S0322).

    In each language about 100 sentences were read from each of the 100 speakers. The read texts were selected from national newspapers available via Internet to provide a large vocabulary. The read articles cover national and international political news as well as economic news. The speech is available in 16bit, 16kHz mono quality, recorded with a close-speaking microphone (Sennheiser 440-6). The transcriptions are internally validated and supplemented by special markers for spontaneous effects like stuttering, false starts, and non-verbal effects like laughing and hesitations. Speaker information like age, gender, occupation, etc. as well as information about the recording setup complement the database. The entire GlobalPhone corpus contains over 450 hours of speech spoken by more than 2100 native adult speakers.

    Data is shortened by means of the shorten program written by Tony Robinson. Alternatively, the data could be delivered unshorten.

    The Portuguese (Brazilian) corpus was produced using the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper. It contains recordings of 102 speakers (54 males, 48 females) recorded in Porto Velho and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The following age distribution has been obtained: 6 speakers are below 19, 58 speakers are between 20 and 29, 27 speakers are between 30 and 39, 5 speakers are between 40 and 49, and 5 speakers are over 50 (1 speaker age is unknown).

  11. Share of U.S. population speaking a language besides English at home 2023,...

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    Updated Jun 23, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Share of U.S. population speaking a language besides English at home 2023, by state [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/312940/share-of-us-population-speaking-a-language-other-than-english-at-home-by-state/
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    Jun 23, 2025
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    Time period covered
    2023
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    As of 2023, more than ** percent of people in the United States spoke a language other than English at home. California had the highest share among all U.S. states, with ** percent of its population speaking a language other than English at home.

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    Statistics of the Languages spoken in South Africa. For each language, we...

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    Updated Jun 5, 2025
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    Koena Ronny Mabokela; Mpho Primus; Turgay Celik (2025). Statistics of the Languages spoken in South Africa. For each language, we report the ISO, the African subfamily, and the prevalent countries where the language is also spoken. [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0325102.t001
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    Jun 5, 2025
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    Authors
    Koena Ronny Mabokela; Mpho Primus; Turgay Celik
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    South Africa, Africa
    Description

    Statistics of the Languages spoken in South Africa. For each language, we report the ISO, the African subfamily, and the prevalent countries where the language is also spoken.

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    ‘Extinct Languages’ analyzed by Analyst-2

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    Updated Jan 28, 2022
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    Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai) / Inspirient GmbH (inspirient.com) (2022). ‘Extinct Languages’ analyzed by Analyst-2 [Dataset]. https://analyst-2.ai/analysis/kaggle-extinct-languages-6686/latest
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    Jan 28, 2022
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    Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai) / Inspirient GmbH (inspirient.com)
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    Analysis of ‘Extinct Languages’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/the-guardian/extinct-languages on 28 January 2022.

    --- Dataset description provided by original source is as follows ---

    Context

    A recent Guardian blog post asks: "How many endangered languages are there in the World and what are the chances they will die out completely?" The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) regularly publishes a list of endangered languages, using a classification system that describes its danger (or completion) of extinction.

    Content

    The full detailed dataset includes names of languages, number of speakers, the names of countries where the language is still spoken, and the degree of endangerment. The UNESCO endangerment classification is as follows:

    • Vulnerable: most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home)
    • Definitely endangered: children no longer learn the language as a 'mother tongue' in the home
    • Severely endangered: language is spoken by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves
    • Critically endangered: the youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently
    • Extinct: there are no speakers left

    Acknowledgements

    Data was originally organized and published by The Guardian, and can be accessed via this Datablog post.

    Inspiration

    • How can you best visualize this data?
    • Which rare languages are more isolated (Sicilian, for example) versus more spread out? Can you come up with a hypothesis for why that is the case?
    • Can you compare the number of rare speakers with more relatable figures? For example, are there more Romani speakers in the world than there are residents in a small city in the United States?

    --- Original source retains full ownership of the source dataset ---

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    GlobalPhone Croatian

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    ELRA (European Language Resources Association) and its operational body ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency) (2017). GlobalPhone Croatian [Dataset]. https://catalogue.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0195/
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    Jun 26, 2017
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    ELRA (European Language Resources Association)
    ELRA (European Language Resources Association) and its operational body ELDA (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency)
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    https://catalogue.elra.info/static/from_media/metashare/licences/ELRA_END_USER.pdfhttps://catalogue.elra.info/static/from_media/metashare/licences/ELRA_END_USER.pdf

    https://catalogue.elra.info/static/from_media/metashare/licences/ELRA_VAR.pdfhttps://catalogue.elra.info/static/from_media/metashare/licences/ELRA_VAR.pdf

    Description

    The GlobalPhone corpus developed in collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was designed to provide read speech data for the development and evaluation of large continuous speech recognition systems in the most widespread languages of the world, and to provide a uniform, multilingual speech and text database for language independent and language adaptive speech recognition as well as for language identification tasks. The entire GlobalPhone corpus enables the acquisition of acoustic-phonetic knowledge of the following 22 spoken languages: Arabic (ELRA-S0192), Bulgarian (ELRA-S0319), Chinese-Mandarin (ELRA-S0193), Chinese-Shanghai (ELRA-S0194), Croatian (ELRA-S0195), Czech (ELRA-S0196), French (ELRA-S0197), German (ELRA-S0198), Hausa (ELRA-S0347), Japanese (ELRA-S0199), Korean (ELRA-S0200), Polish (ELRA-S0320), Portuguese (Brazilian) (ELRA-S0201), Russian (ELRA-S0202), Spanish (Latin America) (ELRA-S0203), Swahili (ELRA-S0375), Swedish (ELRA-S0204), Tamil (ELRA-S0205), Thai (ELRA-S0321), Turkish (ELRA-S0206), Ukrainian (ELRA-S0377), and Vietnamese (ELRA-S0322).In each language about 100 sentences were read from each of the 100 speakers. The read texts were selected from national newspapers available via Internet to provide a large vocabulary. The read articles cover national and international political news as well as economic news. The speech is available in 16bit, 16kHz mono quality, recorded with a close-speaking microphone (Sennheiser 440-6). The transcriptions are internally validated and supplemented by special markers for spontaneous effects like stuttering, false starts, and non-verbal effects like laughing and hesitations. Speaker information like age, gender, occupation, etc. as well as information about the recording setup complement the database. The entire GlobalPhone corpus contains over 450 hours of speech spoken by more than 2100 native adult speakers.Data is shortened by means of the shorten program written by Tony Robinson. Alternatively, the data could be delivered unshorten.The Croatian corpus was produced using the HRT and Obzor Nacional newspapers. It contains recordings of 94 speakers (38 males, 56 females) recorded in Zagreb, Croatia, and parts of Bosnia. The following age distribution has been obtained: 21 speakers are below 19, 30 speakers are between 20 and 29, 14 speakers are between 30 and 39, 15 speakers are between 40 and 49, and 13 speakers are over 50 (1 speaker age is unknown).

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    Languages in the collected tweets.

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    Koena Ronny Mabokela; Mpho Primus; Turgay Celik (2025). Languages in the collected tweets. [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0325102.t006
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 5, 2025
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    Authors
    Koena Ronny Mabokela; Mpho Primus; Turgay Celik
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    While sentiment analysis systems excel in high-resource languages, most African languages facing limited resources, remain under-represented. This gap leaves a significant portion of the world’s population without access to technologies in their native languages. However, multilingual pre-trained language models (PLM) offer a promising approach for sentiment analysis in low-resource languages. Although the absence of large data in African languages poses a challenge for developing PLMs, fine-tuning and task adaptation of existing multilingual PLMs is an alternative solution. This paper explores the use of multilingual PLMs for sentiment analysis in five Southern African languages: Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, isiXhosa, and isiZulu. We leverage existing PLMs and fine-tune them for this specific task, avoiding training the models from scratch. Our work expands on the SAfriSenti corpus, a Twitter sentiment dataset for these languages. We employ various annotation techniques to create a labelled dataset and perform benchmark experiments utilising various multilingual PLMs. Our findings demonstrate the effectiveness of multilingual PLM, particularly for closely-related languages (Sotho-Tswana), where the ensemble PLMs method achieved an average weighted F1 score above 63%. In particular, Nguni closely-related languages achieved an even higher average weighted F1 score, exceeding 77%, highlighting the potential of PLMs for sentiment analysis in South African languages.

  16. F

    Mandarin General Conversation Speech Dataset for ASR

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    Updated Aug 1, 2022
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    FutureBee AI (2022). Mandarin General Conversation Speech Dataset for ASR [Dataset]. https://www.futurebeeai.com/dataset/speech-dataset/general-conversation-mandarin-china
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    Dataset updated
    Aug 1, 2022
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    FutureBeeAI
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    FutureBee AI
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    https://www.futurebeeai.com/policies/ai-data-license-agreementhttps://www.futurebeeai.com/policies/ai-data-license-agreement

    Dataset funded by
    FutureBeeAI
    Description

    Introduction

    Welcome to the Mandarin Chinese General Conversation Speech Dataset — a rich, linguistically diverse corpus purpose-built to accelerate the development of Mandarin speech technologies. This dataset is designed to train and fine-tune ASR systems, spoken language understanding models, and generative voice AI tailored to real-world Mandarin Chinese communication.

    Curated by FutureBeeAI, this 30 hours dataset offers unscripted, spontaneous two-speaker conversations across a wide array of real-life topics. It enables researchers, AI developers, and voice-first product teams to build robust, production-grade Mandarin speech models that understand and respond to authentic Chinese accents and dialects.

    Speech Data

    The dataset comprises 30 hours of high-quality audio, featuring natural, free-flowing dialogue between native speakers of Mandarin Chinese. These sessions range from informal daily talks to deeper, topic-specific discussions, ensuring variability and context richness for diverse use cases.

    Participant Diversity:
    Speakers: 60 verified native Mandarin Chinese speakers from FutureBeeAI’s contributor community.
    Regions: Representing various provinces of China to ensure dialectal diversity and demographic balance.
    Demographics: A balanced gender ratio (60% male, 40% female) with participant ages ranging from 18 to 70 years.
    Recording Details:
    Conversation Style: Unscripted, spontaneous peer-to-peer dialogues.
    Duration: Each conversation ranges from 15 to 60 minutes.
    Audio Format: Stereo WAV files, 16-bit depth, recorded at 16kHz sample rate.
    Environment: Quiet, echo-free settings with no background noise.

    Topic Diversity

    The dataset spans a wide variety of everyday and domain-relevant themes. This topic diversity ensures the resulting models are adaptable to broad speech contexts.

    Sample Topics Include:
    Family & Relationships
    Food & Recipes
    Education & Career
    Healthcare Discussions
    Social Issues
    Technology & Gadgets
    Travel & Local Culture
    Shopping & Marketplace Experiences, and many more.

    Transcription

    Each audio file is paired with a human-verified, verbatim transcription available in JSON format.

    Transcription Highlights:
    Speaker-segmented dialogues
    Time-coded utterances
    Non-speech elements (pauses, laughter, etc.)
    High transcription accuracy, achieved through double QA pass, average WER < 5%

    These transcriptions are production-ready, enabling seamless integration into ASR model pipelines or conversational AI workflows.

    Metadata

    The dataset comes with granular metadata for both speakers and recordings:

    Speaker Metadata: Age, gender, accent, dialect, state/province, and participant ID.
    Recording Metadata: Topic, duration, audio format, device type, and sample rate.

    Such metadata helps developers fine-tune model training and supports use-case-specific filtering or demographic analysis.

    Usage and Applications

    This dataset is a versatile resource for multiple Mandarin speech and language AI applications:

    ASR Development: Train accurate speech-to-text systems for Mandarin Chinese.
    Voice Assistants: Build smart assistants capable of understanding natural Chinese conversations.
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  17. E

    GlobalPhone Korean

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    GlobalPhone Korean [Dataset]. https://live.european-language-grid.eu/catalogue/corpus/1911
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    http://catalogue.elra.info/static/from_media/metashare/licences/ELRA_VAR.pdfhttp://catalogue.elra.info/static/from_media/metashare/licences/ELRA_VAR.pdf

    http://catalogue.elra.info/static/from_media/metashare/licences/ELRA_END_USER.pdfhttp://catalogue.elra.info/static/from_media/metashare/licences/ELRA_END_USER.pdf

    Description

    The GlobalPhone corpus developed in collaboration with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was designed to provide read speech data for the development and evaluation of large continuous speech recognition systems in the most widespread languages of the world, and to provide a uniform, multilingual speech and text database for language independent and language adaptive speech recognition as well as for language identification tasks.

    The entire GlobalPhone corpus enables the acquisition of acoustic-phonetic knowledge of the following 22 spoken languages: Arabic (ELRA-S0192), Bulgarian (ELRA-S0319), Chinese-Mandarin (ELRA-S0193), Chinese-Shanghai (ELRA-S0194), Croatian (ELRA-S0195), Czech (ELRA-S0196), French (ELRA-S0197), German (ELRA-S0198), Hausa (ELRA-S0347), Japanese (ELRA-S0199), Korean (ELRA-S0200), Polish (ELRA-S0320), Portuguese (Brazilian) (ELRA-S0201), Russian (ELRA-S0202), Spanish (Latin America) (ELRA-S0203), Swahili (ELRA-S0375), Swedish (ELRA-S0204), Tamil (ELRA-S0205), Thai (ELRA-S0321), Turkish (ELRA-S0206), Ukrainian (ELRA-S0377), and Vietnamese (ELRA-S0322).

    In each language about 100 sentences were read from each of the 100 speakers. The read texts were selected from national newspapers available via Internet to provide a large vocabulary. The read articles cover national and international political news as well as economic news. The speech is available in 16bit, 16kHz mono quality, recorded with a close-speaking microphone (Sennheiser 440-6). The transcriptions are internally validated and supplemented by special markers for spontaneous effects like stuttering, false starts, and non-verbal effects like laughing and hesitations. Speaker information like age, gender, occupation, etc. as well as information about the recording setup complement the database. The entire GlobalPhone corpus contains over 450 hours of speech spoken by more than 2100 native adult speakers.

    Data is shortened by means of the shorten program written by Tony Robinson. Alternatively, the data could be delivered unshorten.

    The Korean corpus was produced using the Hankyoreh Daily News. It contains recordings of 100 speakers (50 males, 50 females) recorded in Seoul, Korea. The following age distribution has been obtained: 7 speakers are below 19, 70 speakers are between 20 and 29, 19 speakers are between 30 and 39, and 3 speakers are between 40 and 49 (1 speaker age is unknown).

  18. World Color Survey

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    Updated Aug 23, 2017
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    Jacob Boysen (2017). World Color Survey [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/jboysen/color-survey/code
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    CroissantCroissant is a format for machine-learning datasets. Learn more about this at mlcommons.org/croissant.
    Dataset updated
    Aug 23, 2017
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    Authors
    Jacob Boysen
    Description

    Context:

    In the WCS investigation, an average of 24 native speakers of each of 110 unwritten languages were asked

    • to name each of 330 Munsell chips, shown in a constant, random order,
    • exposed to a palette of these chips and asked to to pick out the best example(s) ("foci") of the major terms elicited in the naming task.

    See the original WCS Instructions to Fieldworkers for further information on the data elicitation method. The files in this archive display the results of that investigation.

    Content:

    Demographics on speakers, color chip coordinates, terms used, and the WCS and the Munsell coordinates, as well as the CIEL*a*b* coordinates. Further details and resources at source.

    Acknowledgements:

    This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0130420. Richard Cook1, Paul Kay2, and Terry Regier3

    1. University of California at Berkeley
    2. International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA
    3. University of Chicago _ In any published work based on these data, please cite these archives. URL: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/data.html
  19. j

    Japan Centre of Excellence (JACEEX)

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    Updated Jul 16, 2019
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    Japan Centre of Excellence (JACEEX) (2019). Japan Centre of Excellence (JACEEX) [Dataset]. https://www.jaceex.com/ssw
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    Jul 16, 2019
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    Japan Centre of Excellence (JACEEX)
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    Description

    Japan Centre of Excellence (JACEEX), is a brand under Jaceex Ventures LLP. Jaceex has been formed with a vision to create a world class workforce with skill sets, work and business ethics, sincerity and devotion as well as other great positive traits found in the Japanese workforce which has been responsible for having built world class Enterprises. For the Indian Students and youths stepping into this world, our objective is to provide life changing opportunity in the form of skill and work in Japan Japan Centre of Excellence (JACEEX) provides an integrated course schedule of learning through exploration, scrutiny and self reflection. We are offering Japanese Language and Culture training-Basic, Intermediate and High Levels. Our training is designed to make the trainee eligible to certify themselves with the globally recognised Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Examination . This will help in building careers with Japanese companies in Japan , in India and also self employment.We also have the facility of Virtual Live class platform

  20. Language Learning Tool Market Report | Global Forecast From 2025 To 2033

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    Updated Jan 7, 2025
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    Dataintelo (2025). Language Learning Tool Market Report | Global Forecast From 2025 To 2033 [Dataset]. https://dataintelo.com/report/language-learning-tool-market
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    Dataset updated
    Jan 7, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Dataintelo
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    https://dataintelo.com/privacy-and-policyhttps://dataintelo.com/privacy-and-policy

    Time period covered
    2024 - 2032
    Area covered
    Global
    Description

    Language Learning Tool Market Outlook



    The global language learning tool market size was valued at USD 12.5 billion in 2023 and is expected to reach USD 32.8 billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 11.2% during the forecast period. The growth of this market is fueled by an increasing demand for multilingual proficiency in a globally interconnected world. Various factors contribute to this growth, including advancements in technology, a rise in the number of international students, and increasing globalization of businesses.



    Advancements in technology have revolutionized the language learning landscape, making it more accessible, engaging, and effective. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in language learning tools has significantly enhanced personalized learning experiences. AI-driven platforms can adapt to the learner's pace and style, providing customized lessons and feedback that cater to individual needs. Moreover, the proliferation of smartphones and high-speed internet has enabled learners to access language learning tools anytime, anywhere, thus boosting market growth.



    The rise in the number of international students and expatriates has also contributed to the growing demand for language learning tools. As more people travel abroad for education and work, the need to learn new languages becomes imperative. Educational institutions and corporate sectors are increasingly adopting language learning tools to facilitate better communication and integration among diverse groups. Additionally, the widespread use of English as a global lingua franca has further driven the demand for English language learning tools, particularly in non-English speaking countries.



    The demand for English Language Learning tools has seen a remarkable surge, particularly in regions where English is not the native language. This trend is largely driven by the global status of English as a lingua franca, essential for international business, travel, and academia. As non-English speaking countries strive to enhance their global competitiveness, proficiency in English is increasingly viewed as a gateway to better career opportunities and higher education. Consequently, educational institutions and corporate sectors in these regions are investing heavily in English language learning programs to equip their students and employees with the necessary skills to thrive in a globalized world.



    Globalization has led businesses to expand their operations across borders, necessitating the need for employees to be proficient in multiple languages. Companies are investing in language training programs to enhance their employees' communication skills, improve customer service, and build stronger international relationships. Corporate learners represent a significant segment of the language learning tool market, and this trend is expected to continue as businesses increasingly recognize the strategic importance of multilingual proficiency.



    Regionally, the Asia Pacific region is anticipated to exhibit the highest growth rate during the forecast period. This can be attributed to the region's large population, increasing internet penetration, and a strong emphasis on education. Countries such as China, India, and Japan are witnessing a surge in demand for language learning tools, driven by the need to learn English and other foreign languages for better career opportunities and global competitiveness.



    The emergence of Intelligent Language Assistants has further transformed the landscape of language learning tools. These AI-powered assistants offer real-time feedback, conversational practice, and personalized learning paths, making language acquisition more interactive and efficient. By leveraging natural language processing and machine learning algorithms, intelligent language assistants can understand and respond to user queries in a conversational manner, providing a more engaging learning experience. This innovation not only enhances the effectiveness of language learning but also makes it more accessible to a wider audience, including those with limited time or resources for traditional learning methods.



    Product Type Analysis



    The language learning tool market can be segmented based on product type into software, apps, online courses, and offline co

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Statista (2025). The most spoken languages worldwide 2025 [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-languages-worldwide/
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The most spoken languages worldwide 2025

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Apr 14, 2025
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Time period covered
2025
Area covered
World
Description

In 2025, there were around 1.53 billion people worldwide who spoke English either natively or as a second language, slightly more than the 1.18 billion Mandarin Chinese speakers at the time of survey. Hindi and Spanish accounted for the third and fourth most widespread languages that year. Languages in the United States The United States does not have an official language, but the country uses English, specifically American English, for legislation, regulation, and other official pronouncements. The United States is a land of immigration, and the languages spoken in the United States vary as a result of the multicultural population. The second most common language spoken in the United States is Spanish or Spanish Creole, which over than 43 million people spoke at home in 2023. There were also 3.5 million Chinese speakers (including both Mandarin and Cantonese),1.8 million Tagalog speakers, and 1.57 million Vietnamese speakers counted in the United States that year. Different languages at home The percentage of people in the United States speaking a language other than English at home varies from state to state. The state with the highest percentage of population speaking a language other than English is California. About 45 percent of its population was speaking a language other than English at home in 2023.

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