How many languages are in the world?
Between 6000 and 7000 languages.
What percentage of people in the world speaks two or more languages?
At least 50% of the world's population.
What do you call someone who speaks two languages?
Bilingual people are people who speak two languages.
What do you call someone who speaks more than two languages?
Plurilingual people.
What are the economic advantages of bilingual and plurilingual people?
There are more jobs available if you speak several languages. Companies have more opportunities if they have people who speak many languages.
Most of the European Languages belong to three broad groups. What are the names of these groups?
Germanic, Romance and Slavic.
Name three Germanic Languages.
Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, German, Dutch, English and Yiddish, among others.
Name three Romance languages.
Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian, among others.
Name three languages that belong to the Slavic family of languages.
Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian and others.
Which three non-European languages are most spoken in Europe?
Arabic, Chinese and Hindi.
How many languages are spoken in London?
At least 300 different languages.
How do you name the language that speakers know and use most?
Mother tongue.
