Making it to the top 5 on our list is Urdu. It is spoken as a second language by over 161 million people around the globe. Urdu belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family and is the official language ...

Language connects humans and its shapes how we connect, trade, and share ideas across borders. In 2025, over 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, yet just a handful dominate global communication.

Spanish may be the most spoken language at home behind English, except in three U.S. states, but the second most-popular, non-English languages used in each state show off the diversity of the United ...

Over 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide. In 2025, over 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, yet just a handful dominate global communication. These top languages aren’t only defined by their native ...

French is the 3rd most spoken second language in the world and is spoken by over 229 million people as a second language. While it is the official language of France and a number of other nations, it ...

FILE - Instructor Vito Susca shares a laugh with his English as a Second Language class at the Fort Bend Literacy Council in Sugar Land, Texas, Monday, June 19, 2017. (Steve Gonzales /Houston ...