1. How much do you know about languages? (Language Pre quiz)

2. Area
Living languages
Count
Percent
Africa  
2,146
30.2
Americas  
1,060
14.9
Asia  
2,304
32.4
Europe  
284
4.0
Pacific  
1,311
18.5
Totals  
7,105
100.0

4. Language “hotspots”: areas with many languages in danger of extinction

5. Academie Francaise
The French language is under attack from foreign invasion. In today's world of mass instant communication and globalisation, it is harder and harder to protect one of the world's most refined languages. Once the language of the world's elite., French teenagers and twenty-somethings talk of "le buzz", they wear "les leggings" and enjoy “le happy hour" in "le pub", immune to the protestations of the Academie Francaise.

6. English: BAD!

7. Area
Living languages
Count
Percent
Africa  
2,146
30.2
Americas  
1,060
14.9
Asia  
2,304
32.4
Europe  
284
4.0
Pacific  
1,311
18.5
Totals  
7,105
100.0

8. (Two states, Hawaii and Louisiana, have two official languages.)

9. Languages: Most Speakers

10. Top Romance Languages

11. Language Diversity (Greenberg Index)
Most Linguistic Diversity
Language Diversity (Greenberg Index)
Least Linguistic Diversity (states close to being monolingual)

12. Bottom Twelve Greenberg (low language diversity)

13. Countries with most languages spoken 1
Countries with most languages spoken 1. Papua New Guinea: 823 languages 2. Indonesia: Nigeria: India: Mexico: Cameroon: Australia: 235 D 8. DR Congo: China: Brazil: United States: Philippines 169
Patterns?
Explanations?

14. English is not the language with the most native speakers, but it is the most widely spoken language due to its undisputed role as the world’s largest (and ever growing) lingua franca.
lingua franca: a language used for communication on a regular basis by two groups neither of which speaks the others language a language others language

15. Distribution of English Speakers

16. Distribution of Swahili Speakers

20. Genetic Classification of English Family: Indo European Branch: Germanic Group: West Germanic Subgroup: Low Germanic

21. Basque region

23. Adopting the Language of the hated colonizer…why?

24. Scottish