Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
With over 6000 languages worldwide, it is estimated that between 500 and 1000 languages are spoken by only a handful of people around the world and that every year the world loses 25 mother tongues. With over 250 languages being lost worldwide academics have come together this week to hold a conference in Wales to discuss rare and indigenous languages of Ireland, China, Australia and Spain.
The United Kingdom is not only home to the English language, but around half a million people speak Welsh, a few thousand Gaelic, about 400 Cornish and a truly endangered language – Manx only a handful at around 100 people. (more…)
Tags: Cornish, English, Gaelic, Language, Lost Languages, Manx, Rare Languages, Welsh
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Have you ever wondered how many languages the European Union recognises as official spoken languages of Europe? Well the answer to that would be 23! There are 23 Official Languages in the European Union, these are made up of languages spoken the most in each member state.
There are more member states in the EU than there are official languages. This is because some member states share national languages such as Dutch in the Netherlands and Belgium, French in France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
The Official 23 languages of the EU are:
- Bulgarian (BG)
- Czech (CS)
- Danish (DA)
- German (DE)
- Greek (EL)
- English (EN)
- Spanish ES)
- Estonian (ET)
- Finnish (FI)
- French (FR)
- Irish (GA)
- Hungarian (HU)
- Italian (IT) (more…)
Tags: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, EU, Europe, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Language, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish
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