10 Interesting Fact About World Language Future

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Languages:

• According to UNESCO, 50% of the language in the world today will become extinct in 2100.
• Mandarin is the most widely used language in the world, with a number of speakers reaching nearly 1 billion people.
• English is the most widely used international language in the world, and is studied by more than 1.5 billion people worldwide.
• Arabic is used by more than 420 million people worldwide, and is widely used in Islam.
• Spanish is the second most widely used language in the world, with a number of speakers reaching more than 460 million people.
• French is the second most widely used language in international diplomacy, after English.
• Japanese has a very complicated writing system, with three different types of letters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.
• Korean language has two types of writing, namely Korean letters called Hangul, and Hanja letters which are Chinese writing systems borrowed by Korea.
• German has more than 300 different dialects throughout Germany.
• Indonesian is the official language of the Indonesian state, and is studied by around 260 million people worldwide.