Languages
% of US Population Using Language Other than English
% of U.S. Population–Using Language Other than English at Home by Block Group and State
Read more: % of US Population Using Language Other than EnglishThe languages with the most native speakers
Of the 7.2 billion people on Earth nearly 2/3 speak one of these 12 languages as their native language.
Read more: The languages with the most native speakersDialects of Arabic
Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family dawning in the Arabian Peninsula. There are many dialects from country to country, with levels of mutual understandability.
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A World of Languages
There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the earth today. The 23 of these languages are a mother
Read more: A World of LanguagesThe Community of Portuguese Language Countries
With approximately 217 million native speakers and 250 million total speakers, Portuguese is usually listed as the 6th most natively
Read more: The Community of Portuguese Language CountriesProbability that any two people of a country selected at random would have different mother tongues (Greenberg’s Diversity Index)
Greenberg’s Diversity Index is the probability that two people selected from the population at random will have different languages. Index
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German Speakers by US County in the Year 2000
Percent of population five years and over speaking German at home by county. Over 50 million Americans claim German ancestry,
Read more: German Speakers by US County in the Year 2000How they pronounce the letter “C” all over Europe
While originally “c” only had a “hard” sound, vulgar Latin softened it before “e”, “i” and “y”. This convention carried
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