Ethnologue report for United Kingdom: "National or official languages: English, Welsh, French (regional). 58,649,000 (1998 UN). Literacy rate 97% to 99%.

Also includes Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, Moroccan Spoken Arabic, Taizzi-Adeni Spoken Arabic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 5,000,
Bengali,
Hakka Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Yue Chinese,
Estonian,
Western Farsi 12,000,
Greek 200,000, Gujarati 140,000, Hebrew, Hindi,
Italian 200,000, Japanese 12,000, Kashmiri 115,000, Kirmanjki, Kurmanji 6,000, Latvian, Leeward Caribbean Creole English, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Maltese, Eastern Panjabi, Mirpur Panjabi 20,000, Western Panjabi,
Parsi 75,000,
Northern Pashto, Southern Pashto 87,000,
Portuguese, Saraiki, Shelta 30,000, Sindhi 25,000, Somali,
Southwestern Caribbean Creole English,
Sylhetti 100,000, Tagalog 74,000, Tamil, Turkish 60,000, Urdu, Vietnamese 22,000, Yoruba,
people from Ghana, Nigeria, Guyana, West Indies.

Information mainly from I. Hancock 1974, 1984, 1986; M. Stephens 1976; R. McCrum, W. Cran, R. MacNeil 1986; B. Comrie 1987.

Christian, secular, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu.

Blind population 116,414.
Deaf population 909,000 to 3,524,725 (1998).
Deaf institutions: 468 in England, 2 in Northern Ireland, 14 in Scotland, 34 in Wales.
Data accuracy estimate: B.

The number of languages listed for United Kingdom is 17. Of those, 12 are living languages, 2 are second languages without mother tongue speakers, and 3 are extinct.
Diversity index 0.07."