Nunber of languages
The continent with the most living languages in the world.
What is Asia?
The language with the most native speakers.
What is chinese?
When there is a big chance that 2 random people from the same country, speak different languages.
What is linguistic diversity?
101 countries
This is the most commonly studied language in the world.
What is English?
The number of living languages are spoken in Africa.
What is ca. 2138? (+-300)
These two languages share the same linguistic roots in northern India.
What are Hindi and Urdu?
In the United States, there is only a 33% likelihood that two random people have different native languages.
What is the U.S. linguistic diversity rate?
The global spread of English, French, and Spanish stems from their countries’ beginnings.
What is colonial history?
U.S. colleges offering this Asian language, which is also increased by 110% between 1990 and 2013.
What is Chinese?
The continent with the fewest living languages, with only 286.
What is Europe?
This language ranks just after Hindi and Urdu, with around 527 million native speakers.
What is English?
This index measures how likely it is that two people from the same country speak different native languages.
What is Greenberg’s diversity index?
Having English as an official language doesn’t necessarily mean many citizens speak it natively.
What is official language vs. native use?
Language courses in this Slavic language decreased by 30% between 1990 and 2013.
What is Russian?
There are at least 7,102 living languages in the world today.
What is the total number of living languages?
Arabic is spoken by nearly 100 million more native speakers than this South American language.
What is Spanish?
UNESCO predicts that about half of the world’s languages will disappear by the end of this century.
What is language extinction?
Americans who can speak this language could earn an extra $128,000 throughout their careers.
What is German?
About 1,313 living languages are spoken in this region.
What is the Pacific?
Two-thirds of the world’s population share only this number of native languages.
What is 12?
Oceania, the Amazon, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
What are endangered language regions?
Financially, German is worth nearly three times as much as this language for Americans.
What is Spanish?