On average, 90% Dutch teenagers can speak fluent English whereas only 80% American teenagers can speak fluent English. (Just incase you didnt know, English is not the first langauge of The Netherlands The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language Eskimos have over 15 words for the english word of 'Snow' All pilots on international flights identify themselves in English. There are over 583 different languages and dialects spoken in Indonesia alone, including English and Dutch. The language spoken by the people most is Mandarin, a type of Chinese. Second is English. English, the second most spoken language in the world, has more words than any other language. But English speakers generally use only about 1% of the language. About one third of the more than one million English words are technical terms. Today, 58 countries in the world and the United Nations include English as an official language, followed by French with 32 countries and the United Nations, and Arabic at 25 countries and the United Nations. According to the 2000 Census, of the nearly 47 million Americans at least 5 years old who spoke a language other than English, about 60% of them spoke Spanish. The Germanic language group has about 500 million speakers in Europe and North America. The Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese) belong to this group along with English, German, Dutch, Flemish (which is spoken in a part of Belgium), and Afrikaans (which is related to Dutch and is spoken in South Africa). The word "time" is the most common noun in the English language. In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language The longest non-medical word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means "the act of estimating as worthless". The three words in the English language with the letters "uu" are: vacuum, residuum and continuum. 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt' There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous The word 'Bye' is used in both English and Spanish meaning the same thing There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver and orange The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions! What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
Malayalam
The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the only language whose name is a palindrome. more
