Language and religions in UK

Language

The most frequently spoken language in the United Kingdom is English, which is also spoken in a variety of regional tongues. There are 14 native tongues spoken in the British Isles, including three sign languages, one Franc sign language, and five Celtic, three Germanic, and three Romance languages. People who have recently immigrated to the British Isles speak a variety of languages these languages are primarily spoken in inner city regions and are primarily from South Asia and continental Europe.

The de facto official language of the UK is English, which is spoken by 59.8 million people, or 98% of the population, over the age of three. (According to data from the 2011 census, 864,000 people in England and Wales reported speaking little or no English. An estimated 900,000 people in the UK speak Welsh, which is an official language in Wales and the only de jure official language in any part of The British government committed in May 2022 to enacting an Irish language act in Northern Ireland, giving Irish and English equal status and emulating the Welsh language act in Wales.

Religion

Over the past 1,000 years, various varieties of Christianity have replaced Romano-British faiths, Celtic religions, and Anglo-Saxon paganism as the dominant religion in the United Kingdom and the nations that came before it. Regular surveys, including the British Social Attitudes study, the Labour Force Survey, the European Social Survey, and the nation's decennial census, are used to track the religious affiliations of British inhabitants.

In terms of the number of adherents, Christianity is the largest religion, followed by Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, according to the 2011 Census, which asks "What is your religion?" The majority of Christians belong to the Anglican Church, which is followed by Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Baptists. Commentators have variably referred to the United Kingdom as a multi-faith and secularized society because of this and the relatively high proportion of people with minimal or no religious affiliations. In contrast to the Census, other significant polls that pose a question in a different way discover that the majority of people in the UK do not identify as members of a particular religion, with Christianity being the most prevalent. Since the United Kingdom was created in 1707 by the combination of formerly sovereign nations, the majority of the greatest religious groups do not have organizational structures that are present throughout the United Kingdom. While some organizations have distinct organizational structures for each of the UK's constituent nations, others have a single structure that covers Great Britain or England and Wales. The majority of significant religious organizations in Northern Ireland are similarly organized on an all-Ireland basis due to the relatively recent formation of Northern Ireland in 1921.

Christianity is the recognized official religion of the United Kingdom, and the state church of its largest constituent territory, England, is the Church of England. The Church of England is not wholly Catholic or wholly Reformed (Protestant). The Supreme Governor of the Church is the monarch of the United Kingdom. Some British citizens and organizations in the UK, like Humanists UK, believe that the country should become a secular state without any recognized religion.