7/25/2023 0 Comments Wales main langy![]() ![]() Together they have over 2 million speakers. These four languages together are the main languages of the large Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi populations in the UK. Now you can find a Polski sklep to buy your Polish groceries in most towns in the UK. Polish is not a new language in the UK but the number of speakers grew quickly after Poland joined the EU in 2004. It’s estimated that there are around 800,000 native Polish-speakers in the UK. Polishĭzień dobry, Polish! Welcome to the number one spot for foreign languages in the UK. And, while most people speak English as well as their native language, around 1 million people in England and Wales speak little to no English. Over 300 different languages are spoken just in London! But some languages are spoken more than others. The number of people who speak foreign languages in the UK is growing year by year. Most people who speak Scots learnt it as a second language and it’s seen as an important way to keep Scottish culture alive. Some people think Scots is a dialect of English, but it is counted as a separate language in surveys. Scots is the second most spoken language in the UK with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland. Welsh is a Celtic language and English is Germanic, so the languages are definitely not mutually intelligible – actually, they’re very, very different! You’ll notice this immediately if you travel to Wales, as many of the road signs are in Welsh as well as English. ![]() ![]() Helô, Welsh! Welsh is the only language listed as an official language in any part of the UK – in Wales, surprise, surprise! About a million people speak Welsh they mainly live in Wales but they do live in other parts of the UK too. There are lots of different dialects of English in the UK, but everyone can more or less understand each other. But how many people speak English and where is it spoken around the world? Welsh But it is the de-facto language of the UK because it’s the main language of around 92% of the population. Some people are surprised to learn that English isn’t the official language of the United Kingdom. Here are some of the major indigenous languages still alive in the UK. English has the most number of speakers while Cornish, a language used in Cornwall, probably has the least – only about 500 people speak it fluently. There are 14 different indigenous languages used across the UK. ![]()
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