Languages

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LANGUAGES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Iban Morales, Jone LarraĂąaga, Maren Etxenausia, Leire Mangas and Arianne Escudero


Language •

The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting on the use of words in a structured and conventional way.

Around 7000 all over the world.

And in the EU, there are 24 official languages, but there are also another languages which they are not official.


Official languages

Semi - Official languages

Bulgarian

Irish

Basque

Croatian

Italian

Catalan

Czech

Latvian

Galician

Danish

Lithuanian

Scottish Gaelic

Dutch

Maltese

Welsh

English

Polish

‌

Estonian

Portuguese

Finnish

Romanian

French

Slovak

German

Slovenian

Greek

Spanish

Hungarian

Swedish


Most spoken languages 1.

English (%38)

2.

French (%12)

3.

German (%11)

4.

Spanish (%7)

5.

Italian (%5)


France 1.

French

2.

Corsican

3.

Breton

4.

Gallo

5.

Basque

6.

Franco-provenรงal

7.

Occitan

8.

Catalan

- Romance Language. - 76 million native speakers.


Germany 1.

German

2.

Low German

3.

Low Franconian

4.

High German

5.

Central German

6.

High Franconian

7.

Upper German

8.

Alemannic

9.

Bavarian - West Germanic Language. - 90 million native speakers.


Spain 1.

Spanish

2.

Basque

3.

Galician

4.

Catalan

- Western Romance Language. - 480 million native speakers.


Italy 1.

Italian

2.

Neapolitan

3.

Emiliano-Romagnolo

4.

Central Italian

5.

Sicilian

6.

Lombard

7.

Sardinian

- Romance Language. - 69 million native speakers.


United Kingdom 1.

English

2.

Scottish

3.

Welsh

4.

Scottish Gaelic - West Germanic Language. - 380 million native speakers.


Basque


Breton ■ Brittonic Celtic language. ■ 172.000 speakers. ■ Native to France.


Icelandic ■ North Germanic language. ■ 320.000 speakers. ■ Native to Iceland.


Portuguese ■ West Romance language. ■ 220 million native speakers. ■ Native to Portugal (Brazil).


Polish ■ West Slavic language. ■ 55 million native speakers. ■ Native to Poland.


Greek ■ Independent branch of the Indo European family of languages. ■ 14 million native speakers. ■ Native to Greece.


Basque ■ Basque is unrelated to the other languages of Europe. ■ 751 thousand native speakers. ■ Native to Basque Country.


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