According to Ethnologue, there are over 40 million L2 speakers

According to Ethnologue, the majority of the population speaks Somali ( 297, 000 speakers ) or Afar ( 99, 200 speakers ) as a first language, which are the mother tongues of the Somali and Afar ethnic groups, respectively.

According to Ethnologue, there were approximately 471, 000 Kipsigis speakers in 2007, with the number increasing.

According to Ethnologue, there are " 200 – 2, 000 " who speak Esperanto as a first language.

According to the 2001 Census of India, Telugu is the language with the third largest number of native speakers in India ( 74 million ), thirteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide, and most spoken Dravidian language.

According to Ethnologue, it is the second most widely spoken Bantu language after Shona.

According to Ethnologue 16, several of the Malayan varieties they currently list as separate languages, including the Orang Asli varieties of Peninsular Malay, are so closely related to standard Malay that they may prove to be dialects.

According to Ethnologue, there are 200 Afro-Seminole Creole speakers in Bracketville, which makes the town the only one in the country where this creole is still spoken.

According to Ethnologue, seven varieties of Romani are divergent enough to be considered languages of their own.

According to Ethnologue, there are around 300. 000 Pomaks in Turkey.

The Konkani language in Kerala is also sometimes written in the Malayalam script ,< ref name =" Lo ">— According to ISO 639-3 and Ethnologue, Konkani (< tt > knn </ tt >) and Goan Konkani (< tt > gom </ tt >) are two dialects.

According to the Ethnologue, there are over 1 billion speakers of English as a first or second language as of 1999.

According to Ethnologue, it has 50, 000 to 100, 000 native signers.

According to Ethnologue, the Hihue or Hoy dialect is considered the standard ; Haila ’ er, Aoluguya ( Olguya ), Chenba ’ erhu ( Old Bargu ), and Morigele ( Mergel ) dialects also exist.

According to SIL / Ethnologue, there are 200, 000 Gen-speakers in Togo in 1991, and 130, 000 in Benin in 2006.

According to Ethnologue. com, in 2006 there were around 3, 123, 190 hassaniya speakers, distributed in:

According to the Ethnologue 2005 estimate, there are 88 million native speakers of the Punjabi language, which makes it the twelfth most widely spoken language in the world.

According to the Ethnologue database, there were more than three million Hassaniya speakers in 2006, of whom 2. 7 million resided in Mauritania.

According to Ethnologue with figures from 1998, 77 % of Crow people over 66 years old speak the language ; " some " parents and older adults, " few " high school students and " no pre-schoolers " speak Crow.

According to the Indian Government, Chhattisgarhi is an eastern dialect of Hindi, but it is classified as a separate language in Ethnologue.

According to the Ethnologue ( 2009 ), Shenwa has 76, 300 speakers.

According to Ethnologue, as of 2004 there were about 10, 000 speakers of the Northern Ōshima dialect and about 1, 800 speakers of the Southern Ōshima dialect.

According to Ethnologue, Azerbaijani is used as literary language and speakers also use Azerbaijani.

According to Ethnologue, there are approximately 3, 960, 000 Kamba speakers, with the number increasing.

According to Akbar S. Ahmed, like modern anthropologists, he engaged in extensive participant observation with a given group of people, learnt their language and studied their primary texts, and presented his findings with objectivity and neutrality using cross-cultural comparisons.

According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, 1446 persons in the Russian Empire reported Ainu language as their mother tongue, 1434 of them in Sakhalin Island.

According to Needham, though there is no way of answering the question of whether the crossbow first arose among the cultures neighboring ancient China before the rise of Chinese culture in their midst, or whether it spread outwards from China to all the environing peoples, the former seems the more probable hypothesis given linguistic evidence, which posits that the Chinese word for ' crossbow ' came from an Austroasiatic language.

According to it, cyberspace is composed of 5 layers based on information discoveries: language, writing, printing, Internet, etc.

According to Bernard McGinn, these parts of the oracles were probably written by a Christian and incorporated " mythological language " in describing Nero's return.

According to her, noble women did not use such language.

According to William Lutz: “ Only by teaching respect and love for the language can teachers of English instill in students the sense of outrage they should experience when they encounter doublespeak.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the English language was in 1876 referring " extensive diaspora work ( as it is termed ) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent ".

According to Zamenhof, he created this language to foster harmony between people from different countries.

According to a supposition, the peculiarities of this language may be the result of a supposed long isolation from other Eskimo groups, being in contact only with speakers of unrelated languages for many centuries.

According to Armstrong, the language went from lab product to real applications following the collapse of the next-generation AXE exchange named AXE-N in 1995.

According to historians at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “ The Nazis frequently used euphemistic language to disguise the true nature of their crimes.

According to some Jewish religious traditions, Hebrew was the language of the creation.

According to Akiba, the divine language of the Torah is distinguished from the speech of men by the fact that in the former no word or sound is superfluous.

According to the Bologna statistics of the European Union, Italian is spoken as a mother tongue by 65 million people in the EU ( 13 % of the EU population ), mainly in Italy, and as a second language by 14 million ( 3 %).

According to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, every year there are more than 200, 000 foreign students that are learning Italian language ; they are distributed in the 90 Institutes of Italian Culture in the world, in the 179 Italian schools abroad and in the 111 Italian sections that are open into foreign schools.

According to this view, the eight-vowel system of ancient Japanese would resemble that of the Uralic and Altaic language families.

According to halakha, all individual prayers and virtually all communal prayers may be said in any language that the person praying understands.

According to Burling, the word " kludge " first appeared in the English language in the early fifteen-hundreds.

According to the last population census of 14 years old which was held in 1998, households whose primary language in Karachi was as follows: Urdu: 48. 52 %; Punjabi: 13. 94 %; ; ; Balochi: 4. 34 %; Saraiki: 2. 11 %; others: 12. 44 %.

According to these theories, neither nature nor nurture alone is sufficient to trigger language learning ; both of these influences must work together in order to allow children to acquire a language.

" According to the sensitive or critical period models, the age at which a child acquires the ability to use language is a predictor of how well he or she is ultimately able to use language.