Country Info

United Kingdom Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 64,121,804 people (99% of United Kingdom) that can read or write at least one language.

17 Writing Systems used in United Kingdom

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
64,121,805
people

French (Latin)

fr-latn
language code
12,306,205
people

German (Latin)

de-latn
language code
3,886,170
people

Scots (Latin)

sco-latn
language code
1,748,776
people

Punjabi (Gurmukhi)

pa-guru
language code
511,679
people

Welsh (Latin)

cy-latn
language code
498,725
people

Bangla (Bangla)

bn-beng
language code
433,955
people

Chinese (Traditional)

zh-hant
language code
349,755
people

Sylheti (Bangla)

syl-beng
language code
323,847
people

Greek (Greek)

el-grek
language code
220,216
people

Italian (Latin)

it-latn
language code
220,216
people

Kashmiri (Arabic)

ks-arab
language code
123,062
people

Scottish Gaelic (Latin)

gd-latn
language code
64,121
people

Yiddish (Hebrew)

yi-hebr
language code
31,737
people

Malayalam (Malayalam)

ml-mlym
language code
22,669
people

Irish (Latin)

ga-latn
language code
16,840
people

Cornish (Latin)

kw-latn
language code
2,007
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR