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Language is an important tool for human communication. Wherever there are human beings, there will be language. How many languages are there in the world?
According to the Handbook on Linguistics and Tools for Language Communication, published by the GDR, 5,651 languages have now been identified in the world. Of these languages, there are more than 1,400 languages that have not yet been recognized as separate languages, or are in the process of dying. For example, in Australia, where only 250 languages are spoken by more than 40,000 people, and these Aboriginal Australians have had to use English, these languages have long been in decline.
In the United States, too, there are many languages that are dying. For example, the North American Indians have 170 languages, many of which are spoken by only a small percentage of people today. Their children and grandchildren no longer understand the language of their ancestors and are accustomed to using English.
Many common languages have gradually become the communicative language of other peoples or countries, and have become second languages. For example, there is a change taking place in Africa, where individual languages have become the communication tools of many tribes and peoples, and they are increasingly replacing the languages of the colonialists who are entrenched here.
In addition, as a result of the war, people are forced to hide in the mountains, forests, or concentrate in a certain area, and the bases of individual language families are greatly reduced, and eventually they will also tend to decline. There are more than 1,110 such languages on the island of New Guinea, Papua-New Guinea and West Irian; There are 280 in the Niger and Benue River regions of West Africa.
Of the more than 4,200 recognized independent languages, only 500 are well studied, while 1,500 are almost unstudied.
Investigated. Although language can be the basis of writing, language is not equal to writing after all, and despite the great efforts of the scientific and religious circles of various countries, two-quarters of the world's languages still do not have a corresponding script.
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The language of some dying peoples.
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World Language Ranking:
1. English: It is the official language of the most countries, and English is also the most widely spoken second language in the world.
2. Chinese: It is the most spoken language in the world, mainly in China, Singapore, Malaysia, as well as overseas Chinese communities in Thailand, the United States, Myanmar, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and other countries.
3. Spanish: It belongs to the western branch of the Indo-European Romance language family, and is the second largest language in the world, second only to Chinese, mainly in Latin American countries.
4. French: It is one of the independent languages of the Romance language with the largest number of speakers after Spanish.
5. German: It is the mother tongue spoken by more than 300 million people and is known as one of the most rigorous languages in the world.
6. The language spoken by Russians and ethnic Russians, the lingua franca of all ethnic groups in the former Soviet Union, and one of the working languages of the United Nations.
7. Portuguese: It is a language of the Romance language family, with more than 200 million native speakers.
8. Turkish: It is a language spoken by 65 million to 73 million people, belonging to the Turkic language family of the Altaic language family, mainly spoken in Turkey.
World languages
Generally speaking, the world's five major languages are Chinese, English, French, Spanish, and Russian, and these five languages are recognized as the world's five major languages. The official languages generally refer to the languages of the United Nations, and there are six languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian, Arabic and Spanish. The decision to establish the language as a working language of the United Nations is based primarily on the influence of the language and its worldwide popularity.
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6 languages, with reference to the common languages of the United Nations: Chinese, English, French, Russian, Arabic and Spanish.
1. Chinese. Chinese, that is, the traditional language of the Han nationality, is the common language of China, one of the international common languages, belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, and Tibetan, Zhuang, Dai, Kam, Li, Yi, Miao, Yao and other languages are all related languages.
Chinese is analytical, and generally has three to fifteen tones. The Chinese writing system Chinese characters are a kind of phonetic script, which has both ideographic and phonetic functions. The Chinese language consists of two parts, the spoken language and the written language, the ancient written Chinese is called classical Chinese, and the modern written Chinese is called the vernacular, which is based on the modern standard Chinese.
2. English. English is a language of the Indo-European-Germanic language family, consisting of 26 letters, the English alphabet is derived from the Latin alphabet, which is derived from the Greek alphabet, and the Greek alphabet is derived from the Phoenician alphabet. English is the internationally designated official language (as a mother tongue) and the most widely spoken language in the world, English contains about 490,000 words, plus about 300,000 technical terms, is the most lexical language, and is also the official language of the European Union and many international organizations and Commonwealth countries, with the third largest number of native speakers in the world, second only to Chinese and Spanish native speakers.
3. French. French is an independent language belonging to the Romance language family of the Euro-Indo-European language family. The Romance language family includes Central Romance (French, Italian, Sardinia dialects, Catalunya, etc.), Western Romance (Spanish, Portuguese, etc.) and Eastern Romance (Romanian, etc.).
French is one of the stand-alone Romance languages with the largest number of speakers after Spanish.
4. Russian. Russian (Russian: is one of the official languages of the United Nations, the official language of the Russian Federation, and the fourth largest number of native speakers and second language speakers in the world.
The number of people who speak Russian is the percentage of the world's population. Russian belongs to the East Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.
5. Arabic.
Arabic (Arabic: ??That is, the language of the Arabs, which belongs to the Semitic language family, and Arabic speakers account for 6% of the world's population. The Arabic alphabet, written from right to left, is mainly spoken in West Asia and North Africa, and is now the official language of 18 Arab countries and 4 international organizations.
More than 100 million people speak Arabic as their mother tongue. Arabic is spoken by more than 100 million people worldwide. There are many dialects of Arabic and they vary widely.
6. Spanish.
Spanish (Spanish: espa?).ol) is abbreviated as Spanish, which belongs to the "Indo-European language family-Romance language family-West Romance language branch".
Ranked by the number of first language speakers, about 100 million people speak it as their mother tongue, making it the second largest language in the world, second only to Chinese. Spanish is spoken by nearly 100 million people in the world, both first and second languages.
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