how many european languages are there?

Question

i had italian on my mind to learn considering that i know how to already speak english and spanish.but i mean there are so many more european languages like german,latin,french and much more,i think that there problably alike but i really love europe even though i never been there but i will someday.i wanna go to berlin,italy,paris,spain,rome,london,and many more.

Answer 1

There are probably over a hundred languages spoken in Europe - just about every country has its own language, sometimes more than one. If you spoke English, French and German you'd probably be able to get along pretty well - you're bound to find SOMEONE who speaks one of the three wherever you are, and the three combined make up quite a few countries in western europe (Ireland, UK, France, Switzerland, Germany and Austria) .

Answer 2

I could not count them all for you, there are too many. There are the romance languages: Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, and etc. There are also Germanic languages: German, English, Icelandic, etc. Aside from this, there are Slavic languages which are similar to Russian, and other types of languages which are rarer. All of these exist in Europe.

Over the course of my education, I have studied eight foreign languages (German, Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, Icelandic, Russian), but I only speak one of them with anything resembling fluency (German). For the rest, I'd have to have a dictionary and grammar guide with me if I were to travel to a place where they were spoken. Knowing one romance or germanic or slavic language does not really help you in speaking the others - it helps in learning them (Italian is very easy to study if you speak Latin or Spanish), but if you learn Italian and then go to France or Spain, you will likely not understand a word, and you certainly couldn't speak them.

You can choose to study many langauges, as I have, and get a general idea about language, or you can focus on one or two so that you can speak them fairly well when you travel.

The choice is yours - I don't regret mine, but it lends itself more to linguistic studies than to actual use. Best of luck, and I hope you enjoy your studies!

Answer 3

Depends how you define "language" - a political, not a linguistic definition, since "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy".

Answer 4

Here is a Wikipedia article which outlines all the languages of Europe, complete with a map of where each language is spoken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_languages

Answer 5

Abaza (Russian Federation), Abkhaz (Georgia), Aghul (Russian Federation), Akhvakh (Russian Federation), Albanian, Andi (Russian Federation), Anglo-Romani, Aragonese (Spain), Archi (Russian Federation), Armenian, Aromanian (Balkan), Asturian (Spain), Avar (Russian Federation), Azerbaijani, Bagvalal (Russian Federation), Balkan Romani, Balkar (Russian Federation) ; Baltic Romani, Barranquenho (Portugal), Bashkir (Russian Federation), Basque (France Spain), Bats (Georgia), Belarusian, Bezhta (Russian Federation), Bohtan (Georgia Russian Federation), Bosnian, Botlikh (Russian Federation), Breton (France), Budukh (Azerbaijan), Bulgarian, Cappadocian (Greece), Carpathian Romani, Catalan (France and Spain), Chamalal (Russian Federation), Champenois (France), Chechen, Chuvash (Russian Federation), Circassian (Russian Federation), Cornish (United Kingdom), Corsican (France), Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Cypriot Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dargwa (Russian Federation), Dgèrnésiais (Guernsey), Domari (Turkey), Dutch, English, Eonavian (Spain),
Erzya (Russian Federation), Esperanto, Estonian, Fala (Spain), Faroese, Finnish,
Franco-Provençal (France Italy Switzerland), French, Frisian (Netherlands), Friulian (Italy), Gagauz, Galician (Portugal and Spain), Gallo (France), Georgian, German, Ghodoberi (Russian Federation), Greek, Gruzinic (Georgia), Gutnish, Hinukh (Russian Federation), Hungarian, Hunzib (Russian Federation), Iberian Romani, Icelandic, Ingrian (Estonia and Russian Federation), Ingush (Russian Federation), Istriot (Croatia), Istro-Romanian (Croatia), Italian, Italkian (Italian), Izhorian (Russian Federation), Jakati (Russian Federation), Jèrriais (Jersey), Juhuri (Azerbaijan and Russian Federation), Kabardian (Russian Federation), Kalmyk (Russian Federation), Kalo Finnish Romani, Karachay (Russian Federation), Karaim (Lithuania, Poland and Russian Federation), Karata (Russian Federation), Karelian (Finland and Russian Federation), Kashubian (Poland), Khalaj (Azerbaijan), Khinalug (Azerbaijan), Khvarshi (Russian Federation), Komi (Russian Federation), Komi-Permyak (Russian Federation), Krymchak (Ukraine), Kryts (Azerbaijan), Kumyk (Russian Federation), Kurdish, Ladin (Italy), Ladino (Balkans, Turkey), Latin, Latvian, Lezgi (Azerbaijan and Russian Federation), Limburgish (Belgium and Netherlands), Lithuanian, Livonian (Latvi, Livvi (Finland and Russian Federation), Lomavren (France), Low Saxon (Germany), Ludic (Russian Federation), Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch), Macedonian, Maghrebi Arabic, Maltese, Manx, Mari (Russian Federation), Megleno-Romanian, Megrelian (Georgia), Mirandese (Portugal), Monégasque (Monaco), Montenegrin, Nenets (Russian Federation), Nogai (Russian Federation), Norman (France), North Frisian (Germany), Norwegian, Occitan (France, Italy and Spain), Ossetic (Georgia: minority language, recognised; coofficial with Russian and Georgia and Russian Federation), Palityan (Romania), Picard (France), Polish, Pontic (Greece), Portuguese , Quinqui (Spain), Rifi (Spain), Romanian, Romano-Greek, Romano-Serbian, Romansh (Switzerland), Russian, Ruthenian (Eastern Europe), Sami (Scandinavia), Sardinian, Sater Frisian (Germany), Scanian (Denmark and Sweden), Scots (Ireland and United Kingdom), Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shelta (Ireland), Sinte (Eastern and Central Europe), Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian (Germany), Spanish, Svan (Georgia), Swedish, Tabasaran (Russian Federation), Taleshi (Azerbaijan), Tat (Azerbaijan),
Tatar, Tavringer Romani, Tindi (Russian Federation), Traveller Danish, Traveller Norwegian, Traveller Scottish, Tsakhur (Azerbaijanan), Tsakonian (Greece), Tsez (Russian Federation), Turkish (Türkçe), Turkmen, Tver Karelian (Russian Federation), Udi (Azerbaijan), Udmurt (Russian Federation), Ukrainian, Veps (Russian Federation), Vlakh Romani, Võro-Seto (Estonia), Votic (Russian Federation), Walloon (Belgium), Welsh, Welsh Romani, West Frisian (Netherlands), Wymysorys (Poland), Yeniche and Yiddish.


Of course, most of the languages on this list are only spoken by a minority.
German is the language with the higher number of native speakers in Europe (about 100 000 000) but English is the more spoken if you include non native speakers.