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Number of living languages: 6912

Number of those languages that are nearly extinct: 516

Language with the greatest number of native speakers: Mandarin Chinese [Encounter Top 30 languages]

Linguistic communication spoken by the greatest number of non-native speakers: English language (250 million to 350 million not-native speakers)

Country with the most languages spoken: Papua New Guinea has 820 living languages. [Run across Top 20 countries]

How long have languages existed: Since about 100,000 BC

Get-go language ever written: Sumerian or Egyptian (about 3200 BC)

Oldest written language still in existence: Chinese or Greek (about 1500 BC)

Language with the well-nigh words: English, approx. 250,000 distinct words

Language with the fewest words: Taki Taki (also called Sranan), 340 words. Taki Taki is an English language-based Creole spoken by 120,000 in the Southward American state of Suriname.

Language with the largest alphabet: Khmer (74 messages). This Austro-Asiatic linguistic communication is the official language of Cambodia, where approx.12 million people speak information technology. Minority speakers live in a handful of other countries.

Language with the shortest alphabet: Rotokas (12 letters). Approx. 4300 people speak this East Papuan language. They live primarily in the Bougainville Province of Papua New Guinea.

The linguistic communication with the fewest sounds (phonemes): Rotokas (11 phonemes)

The language with the virtually sounds (phonemes): !Xóõ (112 phonemes). Approx. 4200 speak !Xóõ, the vast majority of whom live in the African country of Botswana.

Language with the fewest consonant sounds: Rotokas (6 consonants)

Language with the most consonant sounds: Ubyx (81 consonants). This language of the N Causasian Linguistic communication family unit, once spoken in the Haci Osman village near Istanbul, has been extinct since 1992. Among living languages, !Xóõ has the well-nigh consonants (77).

Language with the fewest vowel sounds: Ubyx (2 vowels). The related language Abkhaz also has 2 vowels in some dialects. There are approximately 106,000 Abkhazian speakers living primarily in Georgia.

Linguistic communication with the nigh vowel sounds: !Xóõ (31 vowels)

The most widely published language: English language

Language with the fewest irregular verbs: Esperanto (none)

Language which has won the most Oscars: Italian (12 University Awards for All-time Foreign Picture show)

The well-nigh translated document: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, written by the United Nations in 1948, has been translated into 321 languages and dialects.

The most common consonant sounds in the world's languages: /p/, /t/, /m/, /m/, /n/

Longest word in the English language: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)

Sources Consulted: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th ed. (2005). - Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia.org - Guinness Book of World Records (2005)

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