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12 facts about the world's languages
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1. The longest alphabet in the world - Cambodian. In it 74 letters.
2. One time mark ampersend (k) was the letter of the English alphabet.
3. Language Taki, common in some parts of French Guinea, consists of only 340 words.
4. Benjamin Franklin in the XVIII century. Found in English 200 synonymous drunk - drunk.
5. Papua New Guinea speak about 700 languages - it is about 15% of all the world's languages.
6. In the United Nations six official languages: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
7. adverb Chinese "Mandarin" - the most used language in the world to say it more than 885 million people. In second place - Spanish (332 million), the third - English (322 million). Russian on the list is in seventh place (170 million).
8. In Africa, more than 1,000 different languages.
9. The Chinese letter more than 40,000 characters. Character difficulty nuisance portrayed the same pair of characters as the word "woman».
10. The priests, lawyers and doctors use in their everyday life by an average of 15,000 words. Skilled workers - 5-7 thousand words, but farmers - about 1600.
11. Word of the virus in Latin means poison, and an anthology - a bouquet of flowers.
12. The vast majority of the world's languages the word mom begins with the letter M.
"Technique - Youth» № 02/2011
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