10 Impressive Facts About English

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The site mislead us into thinking Mandarin Chinese is the most (widely) spoken language? but then China has 1.344 bilion inhabitants! (as for 2011) So, so many speakers speak it "intra-muros" (within the country itself).

It also shows that the language with the fewest words is Taki Taki (340 words), it´s impressive.

The site doesn´t say, but the Sahara´s Tuaregs (zero "phonetical" words, just the click of their tongues). Altough some use two or more languages, learned in the neighbouring countries.


http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/ ... win-text/2
He answered with a click of his tongue. I couldn't gauge his expression because his face was completely obscured by his turban.

I just knew there had to be a word that was longer than "antidisestablishmentarianism" or "floccinaucinihilipilification".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoul ... noconiosis

Gosh! I never could pronounce that one in one breath. I tried but I had to stop to caugh my breath some times. ha ha.