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Mainly spoken in: South Africa.

Number of speakers worldwide: 6 million

Info: Afrikaans is a descendent of Dutch. Speakers of Afrikaans can understand Dutch, though Dutch speakers tend to need a while to tune into Afrikaans

Alphabet: Latin

Mainly spoken in: North central Ethiopia, Amhara Region and in Addis Ababa

Number of speakers worldwide: 17 million

Info: It is used in government, public media and commerce. Speakers also use English, Arabic, Oromo or Tigrinya

Alphabet: Ge'ez (Ethiopic) script

Mainly spoken in: Middle East, North Africa, other Muslim countries

Number of speakers worldwide: 221 million

Info: There are many different dialects of Arabic spoken throughout the Middle East and North Africa but Standard Arabic (also known as Literary Arabic) is used in television and radio and nearly all written matter

Alphabet: Arabic alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Bangladesh and India

Number of speakers worldwide: 189 million

Info: It is also known as Banga-Bhasa, Bangala or Bangla. It is the official language of Bangladesh

Alphabet: Bengali alphabet (Eastern Nagari : Eastern Neo-Brahmic script)

Mainly spoken in: Bulgaria

Number of speakers worldwide: 12 million

Info: Bulgarian is a Southern Slavic language and was the first Slavic language to be written. A modern literary language based on vernacular spoken Bulgarian was standardised after Bulgaria became independent in 1878

Alphabet: Cyrillic alphabet

Mainly spoken in: China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, Malaysia, Macau

Number of speakers worldwide: 1,100 million

Info: There are many different dialects of spoken Chinese but it is written either as Traditional Chinese (Used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau) or Simplified Chinese (Used in Peoples Republic of China, Singapore and Malaysia)

Alphabet: Chinese script

Mainly spoken in: Czech Republic

Number of speakers worldwide: 12 million

Info: Czech is a Western Slavonic language spoken by people in the Czech Republic. There are also many people of Czech origin in other countries, particularly the USA

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Denmark

Number of speakers worldwide: 6 million

Info: Danish is one of the North Germanic languages (also called Scandinavian languages), a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Netherlands & Belgium

Number of speakers worldwide: 17 million

Info: Practically all speakers of other languages in the Netherlands are also fluent in Dutch

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: United Kingdom and approximately 115 other countries!

Number of speakers worldwide: 480 million

Info: Spoken by 480 million worldwide. English is the international language for communications, science, aviation, business, entertainment and diplomacy

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Estonian

Number of speakers worldwide: 1 million

Info: Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language closely related to Finnish

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Iran

Number of speakers worldwide: 40 million

Info: Farsi is a member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family; it is the official language of Iran. It is most closely related to Middle and Old Persian, former languages of the region of Fars ("Persia") in southwestern Iran. Modern Persian is called Farsi by native speakers

Alphabet: Arabic alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Finland

Number of speakers worldwide: 5 million

Info: The Finnish language is spoken mainly in Finland but also by people of Finnish origin in Sweden and other countries. It belongs to the Fenno-Ugric group of languages, which is part of the Uralian family of languages

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: France, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland

Number of speakers worldwide: 265 million

Info: French is also the official language of many small African nations

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Number of speakers worldwide: 109 million

Info: German is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. German is the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union and is generally considered as a global language 

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Greece

Number of speakers worldwide: 12 million

Info: The Greek alphabet is a set of 24 letters that have been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It is the oldest alphabetic script in continuous use today

Alphabet: Greek alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Gujarat, India

Number of speakers worldwide: 45 million

Info Gujarati is one of the 22 official languages and 14 regional languages of India. It is officially recognized in the state of Gujarat, India

Alphabet: Gujarati alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Israel

Number of speakers worldwide: 7 million

Info: Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. It is one of the world's oldest languages and is the official language of Israel

Alphabet: Hebrew alphabet

Mainly spoken in: India & Bangladesh

Number of speakers worldwide: 487 million

Info: Hindi and Urdu are essentially the same language. Hindi speakers can understand Urdu speakers and vice verse. The main difference being that Urdu is written with the Urdu Nasta'liq alphabet where as Hindi is written with the Devanagari alphabet

Alphabet: Devanagari alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Hungary

Number of speakers worldwide: 10 million

Info: Hungarian does not belong to the Indo-European language family. Due to the Uralic heritage, Hungarian often sounds completely foreign to speakers of Indo-European languages. It is sometimes considered to be one of the most difficult languages for speakers of English to learn

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Indonesia

Number of speakers worldwide: 240 million

Info: Most of Indonesia's inhabitants speak the language and it is one of most widely spoken languages in the world

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Iceland

Number of speakers worldwide: 239,768

Info: Iceland's written and spoken language is Icelandic, a Nordic language very similar to that spoken by Iceland’s first settlers. The Icelandic language is one of the oldest living languages in Europe

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Italy, Belgium & Switzerland

Number of speakers worldwide: 55 million

Info: Italian is a Romance language spoken as a first language primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of the 4 official languages and it is also the official language of San Marino, and the primary language of the Vatican City

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Japan

Number of speakers worldwide: 121 million

Info: Japanese is considered to be the most complex written language in the world. It takes about twice as long to say something when compared to English. English song lyrics have to be cut in half when translated into Japanese in order to keep the same rhythm

Alphabet: Japanese script

Mainly spoken in: North & South Korea and China

Number of speakers worldwide: 67 million

Info: Korean is the official language of North Korea and South Korea. It was formerly written using Hanja and borrowed Chinese characters pronounced in the Korean way. In the 15th century the Hangul writing system was developed

Alphabet: The Hangul alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Latvia.

Number of speakers worldwide: 1.5 million

Info: Latvian is the official state language of Latvia. Alternative names include Lettish and Lettisch. Latvian is a Baltic language and is most closely related to Lithuanian, although the two are not mutually intelligible

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Lithuania

Number of speakers worldwide: 3 million

Info: Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognised as one of the official languages of the European Union. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they are not mutually intelligible

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Macedonia

Number of speakers worldwide: 1.5 million

Info: Macedonian is the official language of the Republic of Macedonia and is a part of the Eastern group of South Slavic languages. Macedonian is related to and has a high degree of mutual intelligibility with the Bulgarian and Serbian languages

Alphabet: Cyrillic alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia (Sumatra)

Number of speakers worldwide: 18 million

Info: Malay is an official language of Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia, and East Timor. In Indonesia and East Timor the language is formally referred to as Bahasa Indonesia, which literally translates as "Indonesian language"

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Nepal, Bhutan, Brunei, India

Number of speakers worldwide: 17 million

Info: It is the official language of Nepal and also one of the 23 official languages of India incorporated in the 8th annex of the Indian constitution

Alphabet: Devanagari alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Norway

Number of speakers worldwide: 5 million

Info: Norwegian North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the USA, especially in the central northern states. Mormon Missionaries also speak Norwegian as a second language

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Indian state of Orissa, and also in West Bengal, Jharkhand, and Gujarat

Number of speakers worldwide: 31 million

Info: The curved appearance of the script is due to a long-standing practice of writing manuscripts on palm leaves with a pointed stylus, which have a tendency to tear if too many straight lines are made on the surface

Alphabet: Oriya alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Poland

Number of speakers worldwide: 42 million

Info: Polish is an official language of Poland, and has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic language

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Portugual & Brazil

Number of speakers worldwide: 198 million

Info: Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It spread worldwide in the 15th/16th centuries as Portugal established its empire. Today it is one of the world's major languages, ranked 6th according to the number of native speakers

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: India & Bangladesh

Number of speakers worldwide: 60 million

Info: There are several different scripts used for writing the Punjabi language. In Pakistan the script used is Shahmukhi a modified version of Persian-Nasta’liq (Arabic) script. In the Indian state of Punjab the Gurmukhi script is used. Both of these are considered the official scripts of the language

Alphabet: Gurmukhi script & Shahmukhi alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Argentina

Number of speakers worldwide: 10 million

Info: Quechua was the language of the Inca empire which was destroyed by the Spanish in the 16th century. It is still spoken today in various regional forms by some 10 million people throughout South America

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Romania

Number of speakers worldwide: 23 million

Info: Romanian is a Romance language spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova. It has official status in Romania, Moldova and the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia. While the language is used in Moldova, there it is officially called the Moldovan language for political reasons

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Russia

Number of speakers worldwide: 295 million

Info: Russian is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages and the largest native language in Europe. Russian is widely used outside Russia and 70% of all world information is published in English and Russian languages. Over a quarter of the world's scientific literature is also published in Russian

Alphabet: Cyrillic alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Slovakia

Number of speakers worldwide: 5 million

Info: The Slovak language is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages (together with Czech, Polish, Silesian, Kashubian, and Sorbian). The Czech and Slovak languages are mutually intelligible

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Spain, USA and many South American countries

Number of speakers worldwide: 322 million

Info: Spanish is an Indo-European, Romance language that originated in northern Spain. It was taken to Africa, the Americas, and Asia Pacific with the expansion of the Spanish Empire between the 15th & 19th centuries

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya, Mayotte, Mozambique, Oman, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda

Number of speakers worldwide: 722,642

Info: Swahili is the first language of the Swahili people who inhabit large stretches of the Indian Ocean coastline from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique including the Comoros Islands

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Sweden.

Number of speakers worldwide: 9 million

Info: Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland. It is to a considerable extent mutually intelligible with Norwegian and to a lesser extent with Danish

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Thailand

Number of speakers worldwide: 20 million

Info: Thai is the national and official language of Thailand and the mother tongue of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai-Kadai language family. Thai is mutually intelligible with Lao

Alphabet: Thai alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Turkey

Number of speakers worldwide: 50 million

Info: Turkish is the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in other parts of Europe. Turkish is also spoken by several million immigrants in Western Europe, particularly in Germany

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Ukraine

Number of speakers worldwide: 37 million

Info: Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. The language shares some vocabulary with the languages of neighbouring Slavic nations

Alphabet: Cyrillic alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Pakistan & India

Number of speakers worldwide: 60 million

Info: Urdu and Hindi are essentially the same language. Hindi speakers can understand Urdu speakers and vice verse. The main difference is Urdu is written with the Urdu Nasta’liq alphabet where as Hindi is written with the Devanagari alphabet

Alphabet: Urdu Nasta’liq alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Vietnam

Number of speakers worldwide: 67 million

Info: Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people who constitute 86% of Vietnam's population and of about three million overseas Vietnamese most of whom live in the United States

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Wales

Number of speakers worldwide: 582,400

Info: Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh border and in the Welsh immigrant colony in the Chubut Valley in Argentine Patagonia

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: Nigeria, Benin and Togo

Number of speakers worldwide: 28 million

Info: Yoruba is a tonal language and is the third most spoken native African language

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: South Africa

Number of speakers worldwide: 19 million

Info: Xhosa is one of the official languages of South Africa. Xhosa is a tonal language and one of the most distinctive features of the language is the prominence of click consonants. The word "Xhosa," the name of the language itself, begins with a click

Alphabet: Latin alphabet

Mainly spoken in: South Africa

Number of speakers worldwide: 9 million

Info: Zulu is a language of the Zulu people, the vast majority of whom live in South Africa. Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa. It became one of South Africa's eleven official languages in 1994 at the end of apartheid

Alphabet: Latin alphabet