Languages of the World Flash

8/7/2019 Languages of the World Flash

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Name the Language

How good is your knowledge of the

worlds main languages?

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WhichWorld Language?

Listen to each audio recording.

Try to name the language that is

spoken (2 pts). If needed. Get a hint. Youll see a

written script of the recording.

Guess again (1 pt). Find out your result at the end and

find out more about that language

of the world.


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Acknowledgments

The audio and text are readings from Article 1 of the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights.

Visit here for the full text. Watch the video.

Readings from Librivox and the U.N.


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All human beings are born freeand equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason

and conscience and should acttowards one another in a spirit

of brotherhood.


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English


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The English Language

English belongs to the Indo-

European family, Germanic group,

West Germanic subgroup and is

the official language of over 1.7

billion people. Home speakers are

over 330 million.


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Tous les tres humains naissent

libres et gaux en dignit et en

droits. Ils sont dous de raison et

de conscience et doivent agir les

uns envers les autres dans unesprit de fraternit.


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French


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The French Language

French belongs to the Indo-

European family, Romance group,

and is the official language of

nearly 200 million people. It is

spoken by over 124 million people,

including second language users in

all countries.


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Russian


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The Russian Language

Russian belongs to the Indo-

European family, Slavonic group

and is spoken by over 290 million

people. Russian was the lingua

franca of the Russian Empire and

the Union of Soviet Socialist

Republics (USSR).


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Japanese


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The Japanese Language

Japanese, spoken by more than 125

million people in Japan, ranks among

the top ten languages of the world.

Japanese is not, as is sometimesthought, genetically related to

Chinese, but rather to Korean and

other Altaic languages, such asMongolian.


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Alle Menschen sind frei und gleich an

Wrde und Rechten geboren. Sie sind mit

Vernunft und Gewissen begabt und solleneinander im Geiste der Brderlichkeit

begegnen.


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German


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The German Language

German belongs to the Indo-

European family and has nearly 120

million speakers. Since English is a

Germanic language, it is notsurprising to find a high degree of

similarity in the vocabulary of the

two languages.


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Tutti gli esseri umani nascono liberi

ed eguali in dignit e diritti. Essi sono

dotati di ragione e di coscienza edevono agire gli uni verso gli altri in

spirito di fratellanza.


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Italian


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The Italian Language

It belongs to the Indo-European

family, Romance group and is spoken

by over 60 million people. Of all themajor Romance languages, Italian

retains the closest resemblance to

the Latin spoken by the Romans.


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Chinese

(Mandarin)


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The Chinese Language

Chinese is the official language of

over 1.1 billion people and, as a

mother tongue, it is the most spoken

language in the world. Chinese is the

language of the Han people, the

majority ethnic group of China.


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Todos los seres humanos nacen

libres e iguales en dignidad y

derechos y, dotados como estn derazn y conciencia, deben

comportarse fraternalmente los unos

con los otros.


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Spanish


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The Spanish Language

Spanish belongs to the Indo-European

family, Romance group and is the

official language of over 330 millionpeople. Spanish is an important

immigrant language in numerous

countries.


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Korean


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The Korean Language

Korean is spoken by at least 75 million

people throughout the world, over 40

million in South Korea and over 20

million in North Korea. The Koreanalphabet (Hangul script), invented in

the years 1443-46, is the only true

alphabet native to the Far East.


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Todos los seres humanos nacen

libres e iguales en dignidad y

derechos y, dotados como estn derazn y conciencia, deben

comportarse fraternalmente los unos

con los otros.


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Portuguese


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The Portuguese Language

Portuguese belongs to the Indo-

European family, Romance group,

and is spoken by over 10 million

people in Portugal, and over 190

million in all countries where

Portuguese is the official language.


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Persian

(Farsi)


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The Persian Language

Persian, also known as Farsi belongs

to the Indo-European family and is

spoken by nearly 33 million people,

mainly in Iran. It is one of the world'soldest languages, a standard and

well-recognized tongue as early as

the 6th century B.C.


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Kaikki ihmiset syntyvt vapaina ja

tasavertaisina arvoltaan ja oikeuksiltaan.

Heille on annettu jrki ja omatunto, ja

heidn on toimittava toisiaan kohtaan

veljeyden hengess.


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Finnish


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The Finnish Language

There are approximately 5 million

speakers of Finnish, one of the few

languages of Europe not belonging to

the Indo-European family. Finnish, it

is agreed, is undoubtedly an

exceedingly difficult language to

learn.


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Bengali


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The Bengali Language

Bengali belongs to the Indo-European

family, Indic group, and is spoken by

over 120 million people in

Bangladesh and over 68 million in

India. Only five other languages in

the world can claim as many as 190

million speakers.


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Thai


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The Thai Language

Thai is spoken by 25 million people in

Thailand. Like Chinese, Thai is a tonal

language, meaning that different

tones, or intonations, distinguish

words that would otherwise be

homonyms.


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Btn insanlar hr, haysiyet ve haklar

bakmndan eit doarlar. Akl ve

vicdana sahiptirler ve birbirlerinekar kardelik zihniyeti ile hareket

etmelidirler.


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Turkish


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The Turkish Language

It belongs to the Altaic family, Turkic

group, and is spoken by nearly 60

million people. It is also an important

immigrant language in Germany. Tovarious degrees, Turkish is intelligible

with other major languages of

Central Asia.


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Alle mensen worden vrij en gelijk in

waardigheid en rechten geboren. Zij

zijn begiftigd met verstand engeweten, en behoren zich jegens

elkander in een geest van

broederschap te gedragen.


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Dutch


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The Dutch Language

Dutch belongs to the Indo-European

family, Germanic group and is spoken

by 20 million people, (nearly 14

million in the Netherlands). Flemish isthe name given to the language

spoken in Belgium and France.


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How did you do?

48 You are a polyglot, a genius!

36-47 Wow. You are Indiana Jones!

25-35 Doing well. A definite linguist.

15-24 Watch some more international films

0 -14 Youd better join National Geographic


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