10 Interesting Fact About Human languages and dialects

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Languages:

• Indonesian is the official Indonesian language and the mother tongue of more than 23 million people in Indonesia.
• There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, but around 2,000 languages have become extinct.
• English is the most widely used international language throughout the world.
• Mandarin is the most widely used language in the world with more than 1.3 billion speakers.
• Arabic is the most important language of Islam, and has been used for more than 1,500 years.
• Latin, ancient Roman language, was used as an international language in Europe for centuries.
• German has many long words, there are even words consisting of nearly 80 letters.
• French has more than 1 million words, but only about 100,000 words are used actively.
• Russian language has 33 letters with several letters that look like Latin letters but are actually different.
• Japanese has three different writing systems, namely Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.