Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian are among the easiest languages to learn | added by Elizabeth |
The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in northwestern Spain and southwestern France. It is not related to any other language in the world. It has an extremely complicated word structure and vocabulary. | added by Nuria |
The language with the fewest words is Taki Taki (also called Sranan), 340 words. Taki Taki is an English-based Creole spoken by 120,000 in the South American country of Suriname. | added by Doug |
Khmer, official language of Cambodia is the language with the largest alphabet (74 letters) | added by Raymond |
Among living languages, !Xóõ has the most consonants (77) | added by Danny |
English has the most words with approx. 250,000 distinct words | added by Erica |
Language with the shortest alphabet: Rotokas (12 letters). Approx. 4300 people speak this East Papuan language | added by Doug |
Papua New Guinea is the country with the most languages spoken, it has 820 living languages. | added by Susie |
Languages have existed since about 100,000 BC | added by Isaac |
There are currently 6912 living languages of these 516 are nearly extinct | added by Isaac |