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There are an estimated 6809 languages on Earth. The majority of those who speak these languages are in Africa and Asia.
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Some languages are evolving and the number of speakers is increasing. Some are in danger of extinction.
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For a language to survive, it must have at least 100 speakers. About 400 languages are now endangered.
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One of the main reasons for the death of languages is the uneven distribution of speakers. Eighty percent of the world's population speaks 80 languages. Of the 80 languages, only 3500 percent of the planet's population speaks it.
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Currently, only one person speaks 46 languages. If these languages are not taught to others, they will be a thing of the past. There are also many languages that only three or four people know. About 200 languages have more than 10 speakers.
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There are more than 1000 languages spoken on the African continent.
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There are more than 700 languages in Papua Guinea. Determining which of them is the state language has long been the subject of controversy. Therefore, the constitution states that there is no state language. English and its local dialect, Pijin-English, are used in the proceedings.
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The Chinese Mandarin dialect has the largest number of speakers, with more than 885 million speakers. Spanish is second (332 million), English is third (322 million), and Bengali is fourth (189 million).
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The international artificial language, Esperanto, was created in 1887 by Ludwik Zamengof, a physician from Warsaw.
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The Swahili language spoken by African peoples is a mixture of local tribes, Arabic and Portuguese.
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There are six official languages in use at the United Nations - English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
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One of the most difficult languages is Basque. It was even used during World War II to exchange classified information. The Tabasaran language is also unique in its difficulty. It is one of the state languages in Dagestan. There are 48 agreements in this language! In the Eskimo language, there are 63 forms of modern verbs and 252 suffixes for horses!
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It takes a minimum of 12 years to translate or write Sanskrit texts.
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In the Eskimo language, the word "snow" has more than twenty meanings.
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According to O. Fanga, one of the oldest surviving letters of the alphabet, it was used in the Phoenician alphabet around 1300 BC and has not changed. Today, the letter is found in 65 of the world's alphabets.
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There are more than 50 hieroglyphs in Chinese. But to read a newspaper, it is enough to know 2 of them.
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The Rotakas alphabet in Papua New Guinea contains only 12 letters.
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There are 112 sounds in Khong, spoken in Botswana and Namibia.
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There are 74 letters in the Khmer alphabet, which is recognized as one of the official languages of Cambodia. It is the largest alphabet in the world. The language is spoken by 12 million of the country’s population.
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Sedang (Vietnam) has 50 vowels.
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There are 17 official languages in India. In second place is the Republic of South Africa, where there are 11 official languages.
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There are 40 languages spoken in the Caucasus. One of them is that the Abkhaz language has 2 vowels and 60 consonants.
Orifjan Madvaliyev prepared.
Published in the 2016nd issue of the newspaper "Soglom Avlod" in 42.
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