Culture’s Dominant Factors Language and Religion Culture’s Dominant Factors

Top Ten Languages in the World 1. Chinese (Mandarin) 1,075,000,000  2. English 514,000,000  3. Hindi 496,000,000  4. Spanish 425,000,000  5. Russian 275,000,000 6. Arabic 256,000,000  7. Bengali 215,000,000  8. Portuguese 194,000,000  9. Malay-Indonesian 176,000,000 10. French 129,000,000 11. Japanese 125,000,000

The Dominance of Languages 6,912 languages www.ethnologue.com Only 11 languages have more than 100 million speakers. 100 languages with 5 million speakers or more 70 languages have between 2 & 5 million. 347 (or approximately 5%) of the world's languages have at least one million speakers and account for 94% of the world's population. 95% of all languages are only spoken by 6% of the worlds population.

World Language Families

European Languages

African languages

South American languages

English speakers in the U.S.

Chinese languages

Indian languages

World Religions

Types of Religion Monotheistic Polytheistic Belief in one god Judaism Universalizing Those that attempt to spread their message and belief system AND crosses all ethnic and nationals boundaries. Christianity Islam Buddhism Ethnic Found primarily within a specific group with little intention of spreading the faith. Judaism Hinduism Shintoism Monotheistic Belief in one god Judaism Christianity Islam Polytheistic Belief in many gods Hinduism Buddhism Daoism Shintoism

World Religions by followers Christianity 2.2 billion Islam 1.7 billion Hinduism 900 million Non-religious 850 mill. Buddhism 360 million African traditional 245 million Chinese traditional 225 million Sikhism 26 million Judaism 17 million

Major U.S. religious branches

European religious divisions

Belfast, Northern Ireland Catholic/Protestant division

The Islamic world

Sunni/Shia divide

Shia and Sunni in Iraq

Asian religions