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How much do you know about languages? (Language Pre quiz)
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Area Living languages Count Percent Africa 2,146 30.2 Americas 1,060 14.9 Asia 2,304 32.4 Europe 284 4.0 Pacific 1,311 18.5 Totals 7,105 100.0
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Language “hotspots”: areas with many languages in danger of extinction
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Academie Francaise The French language is under attack from foreign invasion. In today's world of mass instant communication and globalisation, it is harder and harder to protect one of the world's most refined languages. Once the language of the world's elite., French teenagers and twenty-somethings talk of "le buzz", they wear "les leggings" and enjoy “le happy hour" in "le pub", immune to the protestations of the Academie Francaise.
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English: BAD!
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Area Living languages Count Percent Africa 2,146 30.2 Americas 1,060 14.9 Asia 2,304 32.4 Europe 284 4.0 Pacific 1,311 18.5 Totals 7,105 100.0
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(Two states, Hawaii and Louisiana, have two official languages.)
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Languages: Most Speakers
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Top Romance Languages
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Language Diversity (Greenberg Index)
Most Linguistic Diversity Language Diversity (Greenberg Index) Least Linguistic Diversity (states close to being monolingual)
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Bottom Twelve Greenberg (low language diversity)
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Countries with most languages spoken 1
Countries with most languages spoken 1. Papua New Guinea: 823 languages 2. Indonesia: Nigeria: India: Mexico: Cameroon: Australia: 235 D 8. DR Congo: China: Brazil: United States: Philippines 169 Patterns? Explanations?
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English is not the language with the most native speakers, but it is the most widely spoken language due to its undisputed role as the world’s largest (and ever growing) lingua franca. lingua franca: a language used for communication on a regular basis by two groups neither of which speaks the others language a language others language
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Distribution of English Speakers
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Distribution of Swahili Speakers
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Genetic Classification of English Family: Indo European Branch: Germanic Group: West Germanic Subgroup: Low Germanic
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Basque region
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Adopting the Language of the hated colonizer…why?
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Scottish
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