1.There are more than 2,700 major languages spoken throughout the world.

2.There are over 583 different languages and dialects spoken in Indonesia alone, including English and Dutch.

More Info: The official language of Indonesia is Bahasa. Other languages include Minahasa, Tetu, Ambonese, Buginese, Dayak, Halmahera, Javanese, Acehnese, Batak, Toraja, Sundanese, Ceramese, and Sasak.

3.More than 2,000 languages are spoken in the entire continent of Africa.

4.The language spoken by the people most is Mandarin, a type of Chinese. Second is English.

5.The most difficult language to speak is Basque. It is not related to any language in the world. It is spoken in north-western Spain and south-western France.

6.The Berbers of Northern Africa have no written form of their language.

7.Somalia is the only country in the world where every citizen speaks one language, Somali.

8.The only country where Latin is the official language is Vatican City.

9.The Cambodian alphabet is the world’s largest alphabet, with 74 letters.

10.The world’s shortest alphabet, used in the Solomon Islands, has only 11.

11.English, the second most spoken language in the world, has more words than any other language. But English speakers generally use only about 1% of the language. About one third of the more than one million English words are technical terms.

12.The language of Taki, spoken in parts of French Guinea, consists of only 340 words.

13.The Irish language has three dialects, the Connact Irish, Munster Irish, and Ulster Irish.

14.The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the only language whose name is a palindrome.

15.Tigrinya, spoken by half of Eritrea’s population, is a Semitic language based on Ge’ez, the ancient liturgical (and now extinct vernacular) language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

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