Do you know...

The number of living languages?
-  6.912 living languages ( Africa-2.092; Americas-1002; Asia-2269; Europe-239;  Pacific (Australia, and other isles)-1310 ).

The language with the greatest number of native speakers?
Mandarin Chinese (836 million native speakers) .
Portugal it’s in the eight place! With 170 millions.

The language spoken by the greatest number of nonnative speakers?
English (250 million to 350 million non-native speakers).

The country where the greatest number of languages are spoken?
Papua New Guinea has 820 living languages.

How long languages have existed?
Since about 100,000 BC.

The first language ever written?
Sumerian or Egyptian (about 3200 BC).

The oldest written language still in existence?
Chinese or Greek (about 1500 BC).

The language with the most words?
Language with the most words: English, approx. 250,000 distinct words.

The language with the fewest words?
Taki Taki (also called Sranan), 340 words. Taki Taki is an English-based Creole spoken by 120,000 in the South American country of Suriname.

The most widely published language?
English.

The language which has won the most Oscars for Best Foreign Film?
Italian (12 Academy Awards ).

Into how many languages the Universal Declaration of Human rights has been translated?
321 languages and dialects.

All the information was taken from: http://www.vistawide.com/languages/language_statistics.htm

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I did this topic because in my English book (Link Up-10th grade) i saw a "mini-exercice": -How much do you know about world languages?-
And i decided to search about that :D

Hope you enjoy!