The languages in Nigeria fall under families such as Niger-Congo family language and Afro-Asiatic family language. However, the official language is English.
Regional languages include Hausa, Igbo, and sign language. There are languages spoken in India , with English and Hindi being official. The Hindi language is profoundly spoken and it is the fourth widely spoken in the world.
Today there are ,, speakers of Hindi in India. Other languages in India include Bengali, Telugu, and Odia among others. India has the most official languages of any country at There are languages spoken in the United States with the English language being supreme. The immigrants from other countries like Mexico, Germany, Arabia, Spain, and Russia have greatly influenced demographic patterns in the United States of America. Over the past five years we have seen an increase in technology-based solutions helping to bridge the language divide.
Tools that allow internet users to translate services and content more easily are now readily available, such as Google Translate or the Microsoft Language Portal. Tech start-up Localization lab translates internet security apps and services into a wide range of languages such as Basque, Shona, Azerbaijani and Burmese. Their aim is to expand the reach of both internet freedom and online consumer safety tools.
They have produced many internet security guides from how to avoid phishing attacks in Swahili to information on how to set up private messaging services in Burmese. Media outlets are also diversifying their content. The BBC now offer a news site written exclusively in West African pidgin English, a largely oral language, demonstrating that even oral languages can be adapted and standardised to a formal news reporting format.
Whilst translation services offer immediate remedies to barriers of communication, they only provide a short-term answer to a long-term problem. To truly bridge the divide, communities need to have the resources, knowledge and skills to produce relevant content for themselves, or to access content that is relevant to them.
Their descendants known as Sumero-Babylonians developed the timing system that we still use today, whereby an hour divided into 60 minutes is in turn divided into 60 seconds. As mentioned earlier, the number of known languages is constantly declining. But why? A key factor is in education. When a language ceases to be taught to young children, its rate of survival is very bleak. It can then be predicted with near certainty that it will not survive the death of the present native speakers.
An example of this can be seen in North America where indigenous languages exist. Only eight of these languages are spoken by 10, people and approximately 75 are spoken by a handful of mature aged people.
What else can be concluded but that they will soon become extinct. This rapid decline in indigenous languages is due to the overwhelming presence and pressure of the European settlement over the past years.
In Australia , more than aboriginal languages have become extinct since European settlers arrived. Based on current circumstances, linguists are now able to estimate that at least 3, languages will be lost within the next century.
During the 2nd millennium BC, only seven languages became extinct. As the years past the number of dead languages increased like rapid-fire. The highest number of languages lost was during the 20th century when a total of languages were declared extinct.
Already this century 12 languages have been classified as dead. The most recent being the Klallam language, when in February Hazel Sampson, its last native speaker passed away. Here are two ways in which you can learn more and help indigenous people protect their languages and traditional knowledge:.
How do you feel about the European settlers affect on the decline of languages? Berlitz Uruguay. Click to call. Adults All adult courses In-person Online Study abroad. Business services All business services Language training Business communication Culture training Testing and assessment. Spanish English. Home Blog The most spoken languages in the world. English 1. Mandarin 1. Hindi million speakers Native speakers: million Non-native speakers: million Hindi is, along with English, one of the 22 official languages of India, the second-most-populous country in the world.
Spanish million speakers Native speakers: million Non-native speakers: 74 million It is the second most spoken language in the world in terms of the number of native speakers.
French million speakers Native speakers: 77 million Non-native speakers: million Colonialism allowed the French to spread throughout the world. Arabic million speakers Native speakers: million Non-native speakers: 29 million Arabic is the official language of 26 countries.
Bengali million speakers Native speakers: million Non-native speakers: 37 million Bengali is the official language of Bangladesh. Russian million speakers Native speakers: million Non-native speakers: million Less surprising is the inclusion of Russian among the world's most widely spoken languages if we consider its territorial extension.
Portuguese million speakers Native speakers: million Non-native speakers: 13 million Portuguese is another of the languages that expanded during the European colonial period.
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