English, in various dialects, is the most widely spoken language of the United Kingdom, but a number of regional and migrant languages are also spoken. Regional indigenous languages are Scots and Ulster Scots and the Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and, as a revived language with few speakers, Cornish. British Sign Language is also used. There are also many languages spoken by immigrants who arrived recently to the United Kingdom, mainly within inner city areas; these languages are mainly from continental Europe and South Asia. The de facto official language of the United Kingdom is English. Additionally, Welsh is a de jure official language in Wales. Welsh is spoken by 538,300 people in Wales according to the 2021 census. Approximately 124,000 people speak Irish in Northern Ireland, which is an official language in Northern Ireland alongside English. List of languages and dialects Living The table below outlines living indigenous languages of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). The languages of the Crown Dependencies (the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) are not included here. Anglic British English English English (as spoken in England) Northern English Cheshire dialect Cumbrian Northumbrian Geordie (of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and surrounding area) Lancastrian Mackem (of Sunderland and surrounding area) Mancunian Yorkshire/Tyke Scouse (Liverpool and surrounding area) East Midlands English West Midlands English Black Country (of Dudley, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Sandwell) Brummie (spoken in Birmingham) Potteries (North Staffordshire, centred on Stoke on Trent) Southern English English East Anglian Estuary English London Cockney Multicultural London English West Country dialects (Bristol, Devon, Dorset, Somerset; also parts of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Herefordshire) Cornish English Scottish English Highland English Welsh English Cardiff dialect (additional varieties of which spoken throughout South Wales) Hiberno English Ulster English Sign Supported English (a sign language based on English, not BSL) Scots Insular Scots Shetland dialect Orcadian Northern Scots Doric Central Scots Glaswegian Southern Scots Ulster Scots Insular Celtic Brythonic languages Western Brittonic languages Welsh Southwestern Brittonic languages Cornish Goidelic languages Irish Ulster Irish Scottish Gaelic Beurla Reagaird Manx Mixed Angloromani Scottish Cant Shelta Sign languages BANZSL British Sign Language Northern Ireland Sign Language Francosign Irish Sign Language Extinct Insular Celtic Brythonic Cumbric Pictish Goidelic Galwegian Gaelic Anglic Old English Middle English Yola Fingalian Early Scots Middle Scots Nordic Old Norse Norn Indic Romani Welsh Romani Romance Anglo-Norman Kentish Sign Old Kentish Sign Regional languages and statistics English In the 2011 UK