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

2. 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

3. The Dominance of Languages
6,912 languages
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.

4. World Language Families

5. European Languages

6. African languages

7. South American languages

8. English speakers in the U.S.

9. Chinese languages

10. Indian languages

11. World Religions

12. 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

13. 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

14. Major U.S. religious branches

16. European religious divisions

17. Belfast, Northern Ireland Catholic/Protestant division

18. The Islamic world

19. Sunni/Shia divide

20. Shia and Sunni in Iraq

22. Asian religions