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DID YOU KNOW?
Language Facts & Figures |
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- Systematic communication with vocal symbols, involving a body of words and the method of their usage
- More than 2700 in the world, with over 7000 dialects
- Dialect refers to a regional variety of a language that has a different pronunciation, vocabulary or meaning
- First learnt language is known as the native language or mother tongue
- Official language of a country is the language in which the government conducts its business
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| English |
- Official language or language with special status in at least 75 countries with a total population of over two billion
- Spoken as a first language by approximately 375 million people and as a second language by another 375 million people throughout the world
- Spoken as a foreign language by more than 750 million people
- Language of choice for electronically stored information (eighty per cent)
- Used by all pilots on international flights, to identify themselves
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