ethnologue

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity uses the Ethnologue database in order to also gather data on linguistic diversity and the number of speakers of indigenous languages.
Le Secrétariat de la Convention sur la diversité biologique utilise la base de données Ethnologue en vue de recueillir aussi des données sur la diversité linguistique et le nombre de locuteurs des langues autochtones.
Additionally, 603 million persons spoke English as a second language according to Ethnologue in 2015.
En outre, 140 millions de personnes parlent le français comme langue seconde selon Ethnologue en 2015.
According to the authoritative reference work, Ethnologue: Volume 1—Languages of the World, the six official languages are spoken by 35 per cent of first-language speakers worldwide.
Conformément à un travail de référence qui fait autorité, Ethnologue : Volume I - Languages of the World, les six langues officielles sont la première langue de 35 % des personnes du monde.
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