{"id":4611,"date":"2017-05-15T02:36:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T02:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.1stopasia.com\/?post_type=blog_post&p=4611"},"modified":"2019-05-03T07:19:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:19:51","slug":"facts-you-didnt-know-about-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/facts-you-didnt-know-about-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts You Didn't Know About Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1556797554776{padding-top: 200px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;background-image: url(http:\/\/173.212.196.205\/1stopasia_new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Blog.jpg?id=7370) !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Facts You Didn’t Know About Languages” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”uppercase”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1541668699420{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #bf2026 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1541405850168{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}” offset=”vc_hidden-xs”][menu select=”style1″ menu=”Newsroom” extra_class=”uppercase industries-menu” css=”.vc_custom_1556797593841{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1556798713617{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}” el_class=”content-div-link”][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Did you know that:
\n1<\/strong> . \u00a0There are about 7,000 languages<\/strong> in the world.
\n2<\/strong>. \u00a0Out of all the spoken languages in the world most of them originate from Asia and Africa.
\n3<\/strong>. \u00a0The most widely spoken languages are Chinese, Spanish, English<\/strong>, and Hindi,<\/strong> in that order.
\n4<\/strong>.\u00a0 44%<\/strong> of the world\u2019s population speaks Mandarin as their first language.
\n5<\/strong>. \u00a0There are about 2,200 languages<\/strong> in Asia.
\n6. \u00a0Chinese<\/strong> is the most spoken language with the largest alphabet in the world. It belongs to the Cambodian language,<\/strong> Khmer and has over 50,000 characters<\/strong>. On the other hand, you only need to know 2,000<\/strong> of those characters to be able to read the newspaper.
\n7. \u00a050%<\/strong> of educational time in Luxembourg is devoted to learning English, German, and French.
\n8<\/strong>. \u00a0There are 13 ways<\/strong> to spell the \u2018o\u2019 sound in French.
\n9<\/strong>. \u00a0There is a language in Botswana that consists of mainly 5 types<\/strong> of clicks.
\n10.<\/strong>\u00a0 There are 2,400 languages<\/strong> classified as being \u2018endangered\u2019.
\n11. \u00a0231 languages<\/strong> are now completely extinct.
\n12.<\/strong> \u00a0One language dies about every 14 days.<\/strong>
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\n13.<\/strong> \u00a0Eastern Siberia, Northwest Pacific Plateau of North America, And Northern Australia are hotspots for endangered languages.
\n14. \u00a0Esperanto<\/strong> is an artificial language, but is spoken by about 500,000 to 2,000,000 people<\/strong>, and at least 2 feature films have been done in the language.
\n15.<\/strong>\u00a0 There are 24 working languages of the EU.
\n16.<\/strong> \u00a0There are 6 official UN languages.
\n17.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0The oldest written language was believed to be written in about 4500 BC.<\/strong>
\n18.<\/strong> \u00a0The Bible<\/strong> is available in 2454 languages<\/strong>.
\n19<\/strong>. \u00a0South Africa has 11 official languages<\/strong> \u2013 the most for a single country.
\n20<\/strong>. \u00a0The pope tweets<\/strong> in 9 languages.
\n21.<\/strong> \u00a0The US has<\/strong> no official language.
\n22<\/strong>. \u00a0Learning a second language can make you smarter. A number of scientists agree that becoming polyglot can boost your brainpower. Other studies also suggest that speaking more than one language can help to slow down the aging process of the mind.
\n23.<\/strong>\u00a0 Most European languages use the Latin alphabet<\/strong>. Some Slavic languages use the Cyrillic alphabet.Greek, Armenian, Georgian and Yiddish have their own alphabet.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_custom_heading text=”Author” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_raw_html]JTVCYW1vX21lbWJlciUyMGlkJTNEJTIyMzAwNyUyMiUyMGl0ZW0td2lkdGglM0QlMjIyNTAlMjIlMjBhbGlnbiUzRCUyMmxlZnQlMjIlMjBpdGVtLW1hcmdpbiUzRCUyMjIwJTIyJTIwZnVsbC13aWR0aCUzRCUyMnllcyUyMiUyMHBhbmVsJTNEJTIybGVmdCUyMiU1RA==[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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