The Japanese Language Has Three Different Types of Alphabets Where does the Japanese language originally come from? In Sinhalese, the word ayubowan means good morning, good afternoon, good evening, goodnight and goodbye. In Somali, there are 43 words relating to camels.ģ0. It is a requirement for astronauts to have a working knowledge of Russian.Ģ9. There are 50,000 characters in the Chinese language, but you only need to know 2,000 of them to read a newspaper.Ģ8. Did you know that in Chinese dogs go ‘wang wang’, in Spanish they go ‘guau guau’ and in Swedish they go ‘voff voff’.Ģ7. Welsh is also spoken in the Patagonia region of Argentina.Ģ6. 80% of African languages have no written form.Ģ5. There are 46 different alphabets used in the world.Ģ3. Rotokas (spoken in Papua New Guinea) has the shortest alphabet (12 letters).Ģ2. There are 13 ways to spell the “o” sound in French.Ģ1. Over half the population is bilingual.Ģ0. There are now more Spanish speakers in the US than there are people in Spain.ġ9. In Spain, there’s a language made up entirely of whistling called Silbo Gomero.ġ8.
Twitter’s top 3 languages are English, Spanish and Japanese.ġ7. German is the most spoken mother tongue in Europe.ġ6. If you need to get cash out in the Vatican, you can use the cash machine in Latin.ġ5. Only 5% of all Portuguese speakers live in Portugal – the majority live in Brazil.ġ4. People using sign language also have accents.ġ3. Greek and Traditional Chinese are the oldest written languages still in use today.ġ2. Around 50% of English words come from French.ġ1. The most linguistically diverse country in the world is Papua New Guinea, where around 840 languages are spoken.ġ0. The first printed book was the Gutenberg Bible, written in German.ĩ. Therefore, the following sentence is grammatically correct: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.Ĩ. The word ‘buffalo’ can refer to the animal, a city in New York and mean ‘to bully’. Khmer (spoken in Cambodia) has the largest alphabet with 74 letters in it.ħ. The most widely translated books after the Bible are The Little Prince and Pinocchio.Ħ. In German, Rice Krispies go ‘Knisper! Knasper! Knusper!ĥ. There are over 200 fake languages, which have been created for various films such as the 12 invented for Lord of the Rings of Klingon for Star Trek.Ĥ. Chinese is the most spoken language in the world with 1.2 billion speakers – 1 billion of whom speak Mandarinģ. There are around 7,000 languages and dialects in the worldĢ.
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