Facts about languages

Did you know that

  • there are up to 7,000 different languages around the world and 90% of these are used by less than 100,000 people,
  • 46 languages have just a single speaker,
  • the Cambodian alphabet is the world's largest alphabet, with 74 letters,
  • Chinese consists of more than 20,000 characters, though only 3,000–4,000 are necessary to read a newspaper,
  • the word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnós which means naked,
  • Slovenian has the most dialects given the number of inhabitants?


Facts about languages

Did you know that

  • there are up to 7,000 different languages around the world and 90% of these are used by less than 100,000 people,
  • 46 languages have just a single speaker,
  • the Cambodian alphabet is the world's largest alphabet, with 74 letters,
  • Chinese consists of more than 20,000 characters, though only 3,000–4,000 are necessary to read a newspaper,
  • the word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnós which means naked,
  • Slovenian has the most dialects given the number of inhabitants?


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