Language Diversity
Which continent has the highest number of spoken languages?
What is Asia?
Which language has the most native speakers in the world?
What is Chinese?
Which country has a 97% chance that two people have different mother tongues?
What is Cameroon?
English, French, and Spanish became global due to what historical factor?
What is their imperial past?
Which language has the least native speakers from the chart?
What is Italian?
How many languages are spoken in Africa?
What is about 2,138?
Hindi and Urdu share the same linguistic origins in which part of India?
What is northern India?
What is the likelihood that two random people in the U.S. have different mother tongues?
What is 33 percent?
Which language lags behind in the number of native speakers, but is still the most commonly studied language?
What is English?
During the same period, how much did Russian college courses decrease?
What is by 30 percent?
Which continent has the fewest spoken languages?
What is Europe?
How many native speakers does English approximately have, according to the text?
What is 527 million?
Which regions are expected to lose the most languages by the end of the century?
What are the Amazon, sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, Australia, and Southeast Asia?
Which two languages nearly match Italian in the number of speakers but were not on Ammon’s list?
What are Korean and Punjabi?
During the same period, how much did Russian college courses decrease?
What is by 30 percent?
About how many languages are spoken in the Pacific region?
What is about 1,300
Which language has nearly 100 million more native speakers than Spanish?
What is Arabic?
Where in the U.S. are endangered languages mainly found?
What are the West Coast and indigenous reservations in the Midwest?
Why are some Portuguese speakers in Brazil not counted as native speakers?
What is because not all Brazilians speak Portuguese as their first language?
Which language skill could earn Americans about $128,000 extra in their career?
What is German?
According to the text, which two continents have the highest number of spoken languages, and how many does each have?
What are Asia with 2,301 languages and Africa with 2,138?
According to Ulrich Ammon’s research, about how many native languages are shared by two-thirds of the world’s population?
What is 12 languages?
According to UNESCO, what fraction of the world’s languages will disappear by the end of the century?
What is about half?
According to the CIA’s data, which language is spoken by 4.85% of the world’s population?
What is Spanish?
According to MIT scientist Albert Saiz, how much more financially “worth” is German compared to French?
What is twice as much?