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"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Did you know that
- There are more than 2,700 languages in the world. In addition, there are more than 7,000 dialects. A dialect is a regional variety of a language that has a different pronunciation, vocabulary, or meaning.
- The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in northwestern Spain and southwestern France. It is not related to any other language in the world. It has an extremely complicated word structure and vocabulary.
- All pilots on international flights identify themselves in English.
- More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
- Many languages in Africa include a “click” sound that is pronounced at the same time as other sounds. You must learn these languages in childhood to do it properly.
- The most widely spoken language on our planet is Mandarin (near about 1 billion people speak it).
- There are over 583 different languages and dialects spoken in Indonesia alone, including English and Dutch.
- The Cambodian alphabet is the world's largest alphabet, with 74 letters. The world's shortest alphabet, used in the Solomon Islands, has only 11.
- The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
- English, the second most spoken language in the world, has more words than any other language. But English speakers generally use only about 1% of the language.
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- Mafia in Old Arabic means 'sanctuary.'
- In Chinese, the words crisis and opportunity are the same.
- Goodbye came from God bye which came from God be with you. So long came from the Arabic word salaam and the Hebrew word shalom.
- The longest non-medical word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means "the act of estimating as worthless".
- The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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