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Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). 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.
Number of living languages Number of speakers Established Immigrant Total Percent [note 1] Total Mean Median 1 Papua New Guinea: 840 0 840 11.81 4,213,381 5,040 1,315 2 Indonesia: 707 2 709 9.98 222,191,197 315,165 3,500 3 Nigeria: 525 7 524 7.37 163,317,444 348,225 14,000 4 India: 453 6 459 1,257,421,714 2,924,237 35,000 5 China (mainland only)
Berges Institute. Retrieved 27 May 2023. Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, and it is an official language, either de facto (in practice) or de jure (by law) in 20 countries. Spanish is also an official language in Puerto Rico, Gibraltar, the United Nations, the African Union, and the Organization of American States.
On 13 September the mob in the streets number some 2,000 people, but now armed with knives, sticks and stones and also some firearms. The mob try to push the police cordon out of the main square. Several shots are fired in both directions, leading to the death of one German while police officers Lodr, Anděl and Čmelák suffer injuries in the ...
Ilocano peopleTattao nga Iloko. The Ilocanos (Ilocano: Tattao nga Iloko / Ilokano), Ilokanos, or Iloko people are the third largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group. They mostly reside within the Ilocos Region, in the northwestern seaboard of Luzon, Philippines. The native language of the Ilocano people is the Ilocano (or Ilokano) language.
Western Front demarcation stones. Western Front demarcation stones, also known as Bornes du Front (Front terminals) and Bornes Vauthier (Vauthier terminals), are monuments erected in France and Belgium to mark the limit of the German advance during the First World War. The stones were the idea of sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier, a veteran of the ...
The large majority of the travellers, over 500, were arrested [1] [4] on suspicion of obstructing police and obstructing the highway. [1] One source states that this represented the largest mass arrest of civilians in English legal history, [5] another that it was the biggest figure since the Second World War. [4]
Look up sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. " Sticks and Stones " is an English-language children's rhyme. The rhyme is used as a defense against name-calling and verbal bullying, intended to increase resiliency, avoid physical retaliation, and/or to remain calm and indifferent.