What Do You Know About World Languages

Interesting language facts that you may not know.

• There are approximately 6900 languages currently spoken in the world.
• There are approximately 900 million native Chinese speakers and 340 million native English speakers.
• Papua New Guinea has 820 native languages spoken within their borders. There are 516 native languages spoken in Nigeria and 311 spoken in the United States.
• About 94% of all languages are regularly spoken by less than 6% of the world’s population.
• The oldest written language still in existence is tied – Chinese and Greek (about 1500 BC).
• English is the language that has the most words (at approximately 250,000).
• The oldest word in the English language is “town”.

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