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22 hours ago · Number of native speakers of each Romance language, as fractions of the total 690 million (2007) The Romance language most widely spoken natively today is Spanish, followed by Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian, which together cover a vast territory in Europe and beyond, and work as official and national languages in dozens of countries.
22 hours ago · Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
22 hours ago · English and Pidgin. English is the single most widely spoken language in Nigeria, spoken by 60 million of the population. [9] It is the main lingua franca of the country and there are a growing number of sole English speakers due to rapid urbanisation and globalisation. [10] English remains the official language and is the major language of ...
6 hours ago · And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it. And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it. Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’. But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’. And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard. It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.
22 hours ago · An eight-year-old tamandua (anteater) named Gonzo was captured by a keeper showing off its “incredible” 16-inch tongue at Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, Washington.The footage here, released by the zoo, shows Gonzo the tamandua, which uses its “16-inch super-long tongues to slurp up insects.”According to a recent article by the zoo ...
22 hours ago · Jefferson Smith: You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak.
22 hours ago · The first century BCE was a time of the expansion of Germanic-speaking peoples at the expense of Celtic-speaking polities in modern southern Germany and the Czech Republic. [127] [128] Before 60 BCE, Ariovistus , described by Caesar as king of the Germani , led a force including Suevi across the Rhine into Gaul near Besançon , successfully ...
