10 Interesting Fact About World languages and their origins

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Languages:

• Indonesian is one of the official languages in Indonesia, and comes from Malay.
• English is the language most studied throughout the world.
• Mandarin is the most widely used language in the world, with a number of speakers reaching more than one billion people.
• Arabic is the language used in the Koran, and is one of the most important religious languages in the world.
• Spanish is the second most widely used language in the world after Mandarin.
• German has 16 tenses or different forms of time, more than English.
• French is strongly influenced by Latin, and is the official language in more than 25 countries in the world.
• Swahili language, which comes from East Africa, has words similar to Arabic and Indonesian.
• Japanese is the only language that uses three different types of writing: kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
• Russian language uses the Kiril alphabet, which is different from the Latin alphabet used in English and other European languages.