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2 Mondea Christiana Novacean Raluca Plesa Ileana cls a-IX-a B

3 1.There are more than 2,700 major languages spoken throughout the world. 2.There are over 583 different languages and dialects spoken in Indonesia alone, including English and Dutch. 3.More than 2,000 languages are spoken in the entire continent of Africa. 4.The language spoken by the people most is Mandarin, a type of Chinese. Second is English.

4 5.The most difficult language to speak is Basque. It is not related to any language in the world. It is spoken in north- western Spain and south- western France. 6.The Berbers of Northern Africa have no written form of their language. 7.The only country where Latin is the official language is Vatican City. 8.The Cambodian alphabet is the world's largest alphabet, with 74 letters. 8.The world's shortest alphabet, used in the Solomon Islands, has only 11.

5 1.Victor Hugo's Les Miserable contains one of the longest sentences in the French language 823 words without a period. 2. The first word spoken on the moon was "okay". 3. The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed. 4. There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "duos": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

6 5. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility“. 6. There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today. 7. There is only one word in the English language with three consecutive sets of double letters.... Bookkeeper

7 8. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions! 9. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. 10. In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value 11. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard

8 12. All pilots on international flights identify themselves in English. 13. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel. 14. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

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