World Language Facts
1. In 1913, the Nobel Prize for literature in Indian language was awarded to Ravindranath Tagore.
2. In the 1991 census, over 90 million people claimed that English was their first, second or third language in India.
3. The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in parts of Spain and France. It is not related to any other language in the world.
4. The Berbers of Northern Africa have no written form of their language.
5. Somalia is the only African country in which the entire population speaks the same language, Somali.
6. There are more than 2,000 languages are spoken in the entire continent of Africa.
7. In Pakistan , Urdu is spoken as a mother tongue by a majority of urban dwellers. In spite of its status as the national language only 8% of Pakistanis speak Urdu as their first language with about 48% speaking Punjabi as a mother tongue.
8. There are 3,372 languages in India but only 216 are spoken by a group of 10,000 persons or more.
9. Sign language for the deaf was first systematized in France during the 18th century by Abbot Charles-Michel l'Epée.
10. There are more than 2,700 languages in the world. In addition, there are more than 7,000 dialects.
