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.
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Around 7000 all over the world.
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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
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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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