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World languages
Various languages spoken around the world, their origin, history and culture.
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Japanese
Language; World languages
Japanese has around 125 million speakers. Japanese has no genetic relationship with Chinese, but it makes extensive use of Chinese characters, or kanji, in its writing system, and a large portion of ...
Serbian
Language; World languages
The Serbian language has more than 16 million native speakers. It's a Slavic language that uses both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet. This language has very rich system of inflection, ...
Chinese
Language; World languages
It's no surprise that Chinese tops the list of the most difficult languages in the world. Nearly 1.2 billion people (around 16% of the world's population) speak some form of Chinese as their first ...
Hindi/Urdu
Language; World languages
Although they have different written forms, Hindi and Urdu share a history, many common words, and a grammar. Many linguists consider them different “registers” of the same common language. Over 310 ...
English
Language; World languages
English used to be the second-most common language, but Spanish-speakers have increased much more rapidly over the past 15 years. Still, scholars have named English the world’s “most influential ...
Mandarin
Language; World languages
With over 955 million speakers, Mandarin claims the top spot as the world’s most common language. One of the five major dialects of Chinese, Mandarin is the official language of China and Taiwan, as ...
Japanese
Language; World languages
Out of the approximately 125 million people who speak Japanese, 124 million live in Japan and the island group of Okinawa. This makes it unusual among the most common languages in its geographic ...
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