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Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and written forms, and may also be conveyed through sign languages. Human language is characterized by its cultural and historical diversity, with significant variations observed ...
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A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
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For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties, and so ...
LanguageFamilyBranchFirst-language (l1) SpeakersEnglish (excl. creole languages )380 millionMandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, ...939 millionHindi (excl. Urdu )345 millionSpanish (excl. creole languages )485 million- Unique Languages: Lemerig
- Taushiro
- Unique Languages: Tanema
- Chamicuro
- Unique Languages: Liki
Spoken in the remote island paradise of Vanuatu, 1,000 miles from northern Australia, Lemerig is a language now spoken fluently by only two people in the world. Near extinction, Lemerig is made up of four dialects, most of which have long been lost to the modern world. With over twice as many phonemic vowel sounds as the English language, the nearl...
A language native to Peru, Taushiro exists solely along the banks of the Aguaruna River by one man, Amadeo Garcia. The loneliness is almost palpable; aware that no one else would be able to understand him, Garcia can only share the cultural wealth and heritage that comes with that language with himself. Around others, Garcia speaks Spanish like mos...
Today, the Solomon Island-originating Tanema is a language only spoken by one person in the world. The incredibly uncommon tongue is something of an amalgamation of several linguistic influences which include Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern and Oceanic. Those who did speak the language have moved on to the languages of Pijin and Te...
Once spoken commonly in Peru, Chamicuro is another unique yet endangered language. Across the world, only eight people still speak it–none of which include children. In light of this, Chamicuro speakers fearful that the sun has gone down on the future of their language have created a dictionary of phrases so that Chamicuro will never become extinct...
Religion can grant an individual many gifts, and for five Indonesians one of those is their language: Liki. Spoken off the north coast of the islands of Indonesia, Liki boasts a mere quintet of contemporary speakers. As previously mentioned, its origins lie within the church, where clerics used the language to communicate exclusively with other chu...
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- Silbo Gomero. Spoken on the Spanish island of La Gomera, Silbo Gomero is a language that consists entirely of whistling. Originally developed to allow communication at distances of up to 5km through the mountainous island’s valleys, Silbo Gomero is regular Spanish transposed into simplified, short whistling sounds.
- Pawnee. A Native American language from the Platte River region in modern-day Nebraska, Pawnee is Interesting in that it has only 13 phonemes or individual sounds that make up the language.
- Esperanto. There are around two million Esperanto speakers in the world. Not so obscure, you’d think? Well, the unusual thing about Esperanto is that it’s an entirely constructed language.
- Sentinelese. Sentinelese is completely different from the other languages on this list. Most unusual languages have a unique quality recognized and revered by linguists.
Comprehensive lists. Lists which are global in scope (all living natural languages would classify for inclusion): by primary language family: List of Afro-Asiatic languages, List of Austronesian languages, List of Indo-European languages, List of Mongolic languages, List of Tungusic languages, List of Turkic languages, List of Uralic languages.
"Languages of the World" published on by Oxford University Press. 1.1.1 Celtic. Celtic, which extended across much of Europe as far east as present-day Turkey 2,000 years ago, has undergone gradual contraction since the ascendance of the Romans in Europe, and with the spread of English and French the Celtic languages have long been confined to parts of Britain, Ireland, and western France.
