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2022-10-30T11:12:00.000Z

Interesting facts about language

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by Baigalmaa
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Interesting facts about language
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More than 6000 languages are spoken in the world. Let's present some of the most interesting of these languages.

- At the UN level, only 6 languages ​​are considered official languages: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish
-The inhabitants of Papua New Guinea speak almost 700 different languages. /15% of all world languages/
- The letter "O" is considered the oldest letter
- In Chinese iconography, "difficult and unpleasant" is represented by two women under the same roof.
- The Khmer alphabet has 72 letters, while Bougainville has only 11 letters
- In Chinese, the two words "tea" and "energy" are spelled the same
- The longest word in the English language without vowels - "rhythms"
- Eskimos pronounce "snow" in 20 different ways
- The oldest word in the English language - "town"
- There are more than 600,000 words in the English language
- American President B. Franklin found 200 words with the same meaning in the word "drunk".
- In ancient Egypt, apricots were called "eggs of the sun".

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