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In Norway, approx. 150 languages and dialects. The major languages interpreted are Arabic, Tigrinya and Somali.
Ayapeneco is an endangered language from Mexico . The language will probably die out very soon, since the two people in the whole world who speak the old language will not communicate with each other.
Nine languages in the world do not have words for colours . One of these is pirahã. This language is also the strangest in the world, according to the Rolf Theil professor of linguistics at the University of Oslo. The language is used by a tribe in the Amazon jungle who speak, sing, shout or whistle it. How do they manage without "color words"? When you want to explain a color, you compare it to something, for example blood or a leaf. The language has no numbers either. Where we would say "two", they rather say "a slightly larger amount".
Spanish contains 4000 Arabic words.
In Georgian, the word mama (মামা)-> means father . Papa (पापा) is used for grandfather, while the word meaning mom is pronounced as deda(देडा).
Chinese has more than 50,000 characters, but you must know approx. 2000 characters to be able to read a newspaper.
Kinshasa - the capital of the Congo - is the world's second largest "French-speaking" city after Paris .
The first language spoken in the room was Russian which is the official language of Russia at a national level. In addition to this, most regions have one more official language (27 official languages). In total, over 100 languages are spoken in Russia.
Khmer , Cambodia's official language, has the world's longest alphabet with 74 characters. The language has three main dialects, all of which are mutually intelligible to each other's users: Phnom Penh (considered standard), Northern Khmer (spoken by ethnic Khmers in northeastern Thailand), and Krâvanh Khmer, an old-fashioned dialect spoken in the Krâvanh Mountains.
Hindi was not one of the official languages of India until 1965 . In total, there are 22 official languages in the country: Assamese , Bengali , Bodo , Dogri , Gujarati , Hindi , Kannada , Kashmiri , Konkani , Maithili , Malayalam , Manipuri , Marathi , Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit , Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu .
Most languages have approx. 50,000+ words , while we only use a few hundred in everyday speech.
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