Languages of the United Kingdom

Languages of the United Kingdom
Languages of the United Kingdom
Main	English (98%; national and de facto official)[a]
Minority	UK Wide:; Scots (2.23%) (2022), Welsh (0.9%) (2021), Cornish (<0.01% L2), Scottish Gaelic, Irish,[a] Ulster Scots (0.05%), Angloromani, Beurla Reagaird, Shelta
Immigrant	Arabic, Bengali, Dari, Gujarati, French, Latvian, Chinese,Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Urdu
Signed	British Sign Language, (0.002%)[c] Irish Sign Language, Signed English, Northern Ireland Sign Language
Keyboard layout	British QWERTY;
	a.^ Statistics indicate respondents who can speak at least "well".; b.^ Statistics indicate respondents with at least basic ability.; c.^ Statistics undertaken with assumptions and large disparities between home countries.

English is the most widely spoken and de facto official language of the United Kingdom. A number of regional and migrant languages are also spoken. Indigenous Indo-European regional languages include the Celtic languages Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh and the West Germanic Scots and Ulster Scots. There are many non-native languages spoken by immigrants, including Polish, Hindi, and Urdu. British Sign Language is sometimes used as well as liturgical and hobby languages such as Latin and a revived form of Cornish.

Welsh is spoken by 538,300 people in Wales according to the 2021 census, though data from the Annual Population Survey shows that 28%, or roughly 862,700 people, of Wales' population aged three and over were able to speak the language in March 2024. Welsh is a de jure official language under the Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 in Wales.

Irish is spoken by about 124,000 people in Northern Ireland, and is now a de jure official language there alongside English.

Languages of the United Kingdom
Main	English (98%; national and de facto official)^[a]
Minority	UK Wide: Scots (2.23%) (2022), Welsh (0.9%) (2021), Cornish (<0.01% L2), Scottish Gaelic, Irish,^[a] Ulster Scots (0.05%), Angloromani, Beurla Reagaird, Shelta
Immigrant	Arabic, Bengali, Dari, Gujarati, French, Latvian, Chinese,Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Urdu
Signed	British Sign Language, (0.002%)^[c] Irish Sign Language, Signed English, Northern Ireland Sign Language
Keyboard layout	British QWERTY
a.^ Statistics indicate respondents who can speak at least "well". b.^ Statistics indicate respondents with at least basic ability. c.^ Statistics undertaken with assumptions and large disparities between home countries.