Friday, February 17, 2012

Languages of the World- An opportunity to reach them.

There are approximately 6,500 living languages listed, out of these about 6,000 have registered population numbers.
Here are some interesting facts:
* 52% of the 6,000 languages are spoken by less than 10,000 people.
* 28% are spoken by less than 1,000 people.

We talk about a language and then of a dialect. The difference is not always clear-cut. It has nothing to do with similarity of vocabulary, grammar or pronunciation. Sometimes, the differences are based purely on geographical, political, or religious reasons.

The ten largest languages in the world happens to be the first languages for nearly half of the world's poulation.