Did you know that most of Catalonia's Chinese inhabitants are originally from the Chinese province of Zhejiang, where Wu is spoken?

Did you know that there are other writing systems besides alphabets?

There are also syllabaries, such as the Japanese katakana and hiragana systems, and logographic scripts, such as that of the Chinese languages, whose characters represent words

Did you know that only 10 per cent of the world's languages have developed a system of writing?
Languages are primarily spoken systems to be found among all human peoples.

Did you know that sign languages are just as much languages as spoken ones are?
Lack of knowledge meant that until relatively recently it was widely believed that sign languages used by deaf people were simply gesticulations, a sort of mime with no real struct...

Did you know that all languages come from a single original language?
It couldn't be any other way, could it? Indeed

Did you know that more than a thousand languages have died out in Brazil since the arrival of Columbus?
In fact, Americanists calculate that some 1,200 languages must have been spoken in Brazil when the Europeans arrived in 1492, of which only 170 are still around today. It is worth<...

Did you know that in English we ask questions in the same way as in Catalan or Arabic, while by contrast Mandinka speakers form questions like the Chinese?

In English, Arabic and Catalan, as in many other languages, when we ask a question we use a word order that is different from when we make a statement. That is to say

Did you know that there are people who cannot understand what their grandchildren say?
What often happens in language contact processes brought about by migration is that the children of immigrants adopt the language communication system

Did you know that more than 40 million of the 450 million people living in the European Union habitually speak a language described as 'regional or minority'?
Some 40 million Europeans habitually speak a regional or minority language which is handed down from generation to generation, normally in addition to the official language of ...

Did you know that Latin is by no means a dead language?
People have never stopped speaking Latin, and a language only becomes dead when people no longer speak it. What is true is...






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