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Language Sets : About languages and distribution in North America

About languages and distribution in North America

There are approximately 5,000 languages used throughout the world today, of which some 130 are spoken by more than one million people and 70 by more than five million.

OCLC Language Sets reflect changing demographic and immigration patterns in North America. The languages available represent some of the fastest-growing populations that your library may need to serve. These 12 languages are: Arabic, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Panjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu and Vietnamese.

Information compiled here is arranged first by the region where each of these languages originated; then by countries included in each region; and general information about the language from the sets, including country population, region, alternative names, dialects, classification and other resources such as links to map and other reference information.

The languages available in the set cover languages spoken and originating in three continents, Asia, which includes two regions, East Asia, Southeast Asia; Europe; and Latin America and the Caribbean.

References

For more information about the country or language, you can check out CIA World Factbook 2004. The reference materials below are also available.

Languages

Select a region to learn more about the languages spoken there.

Asia
India
Europe

Any statistics in this page are as of May 2004.