Editing Languages of Europe (section)

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[[File:Languages of Europe.svg|alt=color-coded map of most languages used throughout Europe|thumb|500x500px|A color-coded map of most languages used throughout Europe]]
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There are over 250 '''languages indigenous to Europe''', and most belong to the [[Indo-European language family]].<ref>{{Cite web |author-link=Ethnologue |title=Ethnologue: Statistics |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/#area |access-date=December 23, 2023 |website=Ethnologue |edition=26}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=European Day of Languages > Facts > Language Facts |url=https://edl.ecml.at/Facts/LanguageFacts/tabid/1859/language/en-GB/Default.aspx |access-date=2023-12-23 |website=edl.ecml.at}}</ref> Out of a [[demographics of Europe|total European population]] of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language. The three largest phyla of the Indo-European language family in Europe are [[Romance languages|Romance]], [[Germanic languages|Germanic]], and [[Slavic languages|Slavic]]; they have more than 200 million speakers each, and together account for close to 90% of Europeans.

Smaller phyla of Indo-European found in Europe include [[Hellenic languages|Hellenic]] ([[Greek language|Greek]], {{circa}} 13 million), [[Baltic languages|Baltic]] ({{circa}} 4.5 million), [[Albanian language|Albanian]] ({{circa}} 7.5 million), [[Celtic language|Celtic]] ({{circa}} 4 million), and [[Armenian language|Armenian]] ({{circa}} 4 million). [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]], though a large subfamily of Indo-European, has a relatively small number of languages in Europe, and a small number of speakers ([[Romani language|Romani]], {{circa}} 1.5 million). However, a number of Indo-Aryan languages not native to Europe are spoken in Europe today.<ref name=":1" />

Of the approximately 45 million Europeans speaking non-Indo-European languages, most speak languages within either the [[Uralic languages|Uralic]] or [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] families. Still smaller groups — such as [[Basque language|Basque]] ([[language isolate]]), [[Semitic languages]] ([[Maltese language|Maltese]], {{circa}} 0.5 million), and various [[languages of the Caucasus]] — account for less than 1% of the European population among them. Immigration has added sizeable communities of speakers of African and Asian languages, amounting to about 4% of the population,<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|title=International migrant stock: By destination and origin|url=https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/estimates2/estimatesorigin.shtml|publisher=United Nations}}</ref> with [[Arabic]] being the most widely spoken of them.

Five languages have more than 50 million native speakers in Europe: [[Russian language|Russian]], [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]], [[Italian language|Italian]], and [[English language|English]]. Russian is the most-spoken [[native language]] in Europe,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Emery |first=Chad |date=2022-12-15 |title=34 of the Most Spoken Languages in Europe: Key Facts and Figures |url=https://www.langoly.com/most-spoken-languages-in-europe/ |access-date=2023-12-23 |website=Langoly |language=en-US}}</ref> and English has the largest number of speakers in total, including some 200 million speakers of [[English as a second or foreign language]]. (See [[English language in Europe]].)