What are the top 2 main languages in the United Kingdom?

Here are a few of the most-spoken.
  • English: 58.1 million speakers.
  • Indigenous Languages: 2.3 million speakers.
  • Immigrant Languages: 4.2 million speakers.
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What is the 2nd most spoken language in the UK?

With around 1.5 million speakers, Scots is the UK's second most spoken language. Some people consider it to be a dialect of English, but it's listed as a separate language on surveys.
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What is the top 2 language?

So keep reading to find out what the most spoken languages are.
  1. English (1,132 million speakers) ...
  2. Mandarin (1,117 million speakers) ...
  3. Hindi (615 million speakers) ...
  4. Spanish (534 million speakers) ...
  5. French (280 million speakers) ...
  6. Arabic (274 million speakers) ...
  7. Bengali (265 million speakers) ...
  8. Russian (258 million speakers)
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What is the 2nd language of England?

Polish is now the main language spoken in England after English, according to 2011 census data released by the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday. The first ONS language figures, recorded from a survey of 56.1 million residents of England and Wales, show 546,000 speak Polish.
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What are the top 10 languages spoken in the UK?

Top twenty languages spoken in England and Wales
  • English (English or Welsh if in Wales). 92.3%
  • Polish, 1.0%
  • Panjabi, 0.5%
  • Urdu, 0.5%
  • Bengali (with Sylheti and Chatgaya), 0.4%
  • Gujarati, 0.4%
  • Arabic, 0.3%
  • French, 0.3%
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How many languages are in the UK?

More than 300 different languages are now spoken in British schools. And in England, over 20% of primary school children use English as an additional language.
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What are the top 3 languages spoken in the United States?

Top 10 Most Spoken Languages in the USA
  • English. English is by far the most prominent spoken language in the U.S., with over 239 million English-speaking people across the country. ...
  • Spanish. ...
  • Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and More) ...
  • Tagalog (Filipino) ...
  • Vietnamese. ...
  • French and French Creole. ...
  • Arabic. ...
  • Korean.
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What is the 3rd most spoken language in the UK?

LONDON: Punjabi is the third-most spoken language in England and Wales, according to new figures from the 2011 Census that also include other Indian languages.
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What is the 2nd most spoken language in the UK 2021?

An estimated 900,000 people speak Welsh in the UK, an official language in Wales and the only de jure official language in any part of the UK. Approximately 124,000 people speak Irish in Northern Ireland, the second most spoken language after English.
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What is the most popular language in England?

Language in England and Wales

Using data from the 2011 Census, we take a closer look at language within England and Wales. Those who reported English (or Welsh in Wales) as their main language accounted for 92.3% of the population, except in London where proportion was much lower.
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What is America's 2nd language?

Spanish, of course, is the second most commonly spoken language in the United States—there are more than 37 million native Spanish speakers. After English and Spanish, however, few realize that Chinese is spoken regularly in more American homes more than any other language (2.8 million).
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What's the hardest language to learn?

1. Mandarin Chinese. Interestingly, the hardest language to learn is also the most widely spoken native language in the world. Mandarin Chinese is challenging for a number of reasons.
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What is the easiest language to learn?

And The Easiest Language To Learn Is…
  1. Norwegian. This may come as a surprise, but we have ranked Norwegian as the easiest language to learn for English speakers. ...
  2. Swedish. ...
  3. Spanish. ...
  4. Dutch. ...
  5. Portuguese. ...
  6. Indonesian. ...
  7. Italian. ...
  8. French.
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What is the most beautiful language?

Here are (in no particular order) the 10 most beautiful languages in the world, according to Busuu's experts
  • Italian. When it comes to the most attractive languages, for many people the native language of Italy likely springs to mind. ...
  • Arabic. ...
  • English. ...
  • (Brazilian) Portuguese. ...
  • 5. Japanese. ...
  • Turkish. ...
  • French.
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What is the oldest language in the UK?

In its ancient form, it was originally spoken throughout Great Britain before the arrival of English-speaking invaders in the sixth century. Apart from Latin and Greek, the Welsh language has the oldest literature in Europe.
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What percentage of the UK speaks English?

98.5% of people from both Black Caribbean and White Irish backgrounds spoke English as their main language – a higher percentage than any other group after White British (99.7%), and considerably higher than the 92.3% average for England and Wales.
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Does UK have official language?

English is spoken across the UK, but it is not the only native official language. You may also hear: Welsh in Wales. Gaelic and Scots in Scotland.
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Which language has only 11 letters in its alphabet?

Rotokas is a North Bougainville language spoken by about 4,320 people on the island of Bougainville, an island located to the east of New Guinea which is part of Papua New Guinea.
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Is English the most spoken language?

English (1,132 million speakers)

With over 1,130 million native speakers, English is the most spoken language in the world. It's also the official language of the sky – all pilots have to speak and identify themselves in English.
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Why do Americans speak English?

History. The use of English in the United States is a result of British colonization of the Americas. The first wave of English-speaking settlers arrived in North America during the early 17th century, followed by further migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Which is the most spoken language in Europe?

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.
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What is the closest language to English?

The closest language to English is one called Frisian, which is a Germanic language spoken by a small population of about 480,000 people. There are three separate dialects of the language, and it's only spoken at the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.
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