It has been estimated that there are anything up to 300 different languages used in Britain today.
But one of the UKs leading 'other' languages has been revealed as being in Leicester according to data provided by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Gujarati, part of the Indo-European language family, is spoken by an estimated 36,000 people in Leicester and 213,000 in the country, equivalent to 17.1 per cent of people in the Leicestershire authority. According the national census which was taken four years ago in 2011, 9 in 10 people said that their first language was either English or Welsh with more than half a million people (546,000) saying that an 'other' mother tongue was in fact their first language and not English.
Top of the language tree was Bengali, a fluency native to the Bengal region of India, and spoken by 43,500 people in the London borough of Tower Hamlets – 221,400 people across the country and accounting for 19.7 per cent of all other languages spoken.
