According to Ethnologue.com there are 7102 living languages around the world. Ethnologue.com is a comprehensive source that catalogues all the known living languages in the world.
Question 2. In which country do they speak the most languages?
The winner is Papua Nueva Guinea. This small country in the south-western Pacific has a population of more than seven million people. They speak 820 languages. Why so many? It’s because of the ‘orography’ of the country that many tribes were kept isolated, which allowed them to keep their own language.
Question 3. Which language is most widely spoken in the world?
Yes, you probably guessed it. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin with more than 1000 million speakers.
Question 4. Which are the most difficult and the easiest languages to learn?
The most difficult language to learn in the world is Euskera. It’s spoken in an autonomous community of northern Spain commonly called the Basque Country. The difficulty of this language comes from its structure. Its basic vocabulary goes through many changes, because of the vast number of prefixes, suffixes and infixes used, giving different meanings.
The easiest language to learn in the world is Pirahã. This is the indigenous language of the isolated Pirahã tribe of the Amazon, Brazil. This language is only spoken by 150 people distributed in 8 different villages. This language does not have numbers, past tenses or colours.
Question 5. Which are the two oldest languages in the world, still in use today?
Chinese and Greek. Both languages have been spoken since 1500 B.C.
Question 6. Which language has the longest word in the world?
The longest word is found in English. The word has 189819 letters and is the name of a giant protein (Acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreon…) its abbreviation is “Titin”.
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