Results: Language 101 Or All You Need To Know A to Z

There are about 7,000 languages in the world.

There are 2,400 languages classified as being 'endangered'.

231 languages are now completely extinct.

One language dies about every 14 days.

The oldest written language was believed to be written in about 4500 BC.

Chinese, at almost 1.2 billion native speakers, roughly a billion of whom speak Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world, followed by Spanish, English, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, and Russian

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English is NOT the official language of the U.S., although it is the de facto language (meaning true, not according to law)

In Canada, French and English are the two official languages.

There are 50,000 characters in the Chinese language. You'll need to know about 2,000 to read a newspaper.

1/4 of the world's population speaks at least some English.Learning another language is important

There are about 2,200 languages in Asia.

50% of educational time in Luxembourg devoted to learning English, German, and French.

There are 13 ways to spell the 'o' sound in French.

There is a language in Botswana that consists of mainly 5 types of clicks.

South Africa has 11 official languages – the most for a single country.

You can use an ATM in Latin in Vatican City.

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There are 12 imaginary languages in Lord of The Rings.

Esperanto is an artificial language, but is spoken by about 500,000 to 2,000,000 people, and 2 feature films have been done in the language.

There are 24 working languages of the European Union (EU)

There are 6 official UN languages.

The bible is available in 2454 languages.

The pope tweets in 9 languages. including Latin

Furby, the children's toy speaks Furbish

The Sims, the characters EA Games' Sim series speak Simlish

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The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.

A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a pangram and the most famous is the one typists use to test their keyboards: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Eunoia, at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels.

"Dr.," "nth" (as in "to the nth degree"), and "TV" also do not contain any vowel symbols, but they, like "cwm" and "crwth," do contain vowel sounds. "Shh," "psst," and "mm-hmm" do not have vowels, either vowel symbols or vowel sounds. There is some controversy whether they are in fact "words," however.

Rhythm can have an 's' added in the plural to make a seven-letter word without a vowel. The longest words that contain no vowel including 'y' are crwth (a Celtic stringed instrument) and cwtch (a shed, cuddle, or hiding place). Both of these words are Welsh and treat the letter 'w' as a vowel.

In general, the Y is a consonant when the syllable already has a vowel. Also, the Y is considered a consonant when it is used in place of the soft J sound, such as in the name Yolanda or Yoda. In the names Bryan and Wyatt, the Y is a vowel, because it provides the only vowel sound for the first syllable of both names

Orange has almost no perfect rhymes. The only word in the 20-volume historical Oxford English Dictionary that rhymes with orange is sporange, a very rare alternative form of sporangium (a botanical term for a part of a fern or similar plant).

Other words that have no rhyme include: silver, purple, month, ninth, pint, wolf, opus, dangerous, marathon and discombobulate.

"Set" has 464 definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary. "Run" runs a distant second, with 396. Rounding out the top ten are "go" with 368, "take" with 343, "stand" with 334, "get" with 289, "turn" with 288, "put" with 268, "fall" with 264, and "strike" with 250.

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