你對語言了解多少?你知道全世界有多少種語言嗎?哪個國家的方言最多?讓我們一起來了解吧。
你知道全世界有超過5000種語言嗎?
Did you know that there are over 5,000 languages in the world?
聯(lián)合國教科文組織已將2500種語言列為瀕危語種。
1)UNESCO has identified 2,500 languages which are at risk of 2)extinction.
大多數(shù)幾近絕跡的語言來自美國和澳大利亞。
Most of the 3)endangered and extinct languages are in the United States and Australia.
全世界有2200種語言源自亞洲,而歐洲僅有260種。
2,200 of the worlds languages are found in Asia, while Europe has a mere 260.
大約60%的英語源于法語。
About 60% of English is derived from French.
菲律賓有超過1000種方言。
The Philippines has more than 1000 regional dialects.
索馬里是唯一一個所有人都說同一種語言——索馬里語的非洲國家。
4)Somalia is the only African country in which the entire population speaks the same language—5)Somali.
巧合的是,美國新墨西哥地區(qū)的祖尼人說著和日語非常類似的語言。
The 6)Zuni tribe of New Mexico (USA) speaks a language thats too similar to Japanese to be 7)coincidental.
阿布卡茲語只有2個元音,卻有60個輔音。
8)Abkhaz has only two 9)vowel sounds, but it has 60 10)consonant sounds.
最常見的人造語言是世界語。
The most common 11)artificial language is 12)Esperanto.
已知最古老的書寫文字是蘇美爾語,它起源于大約公元前3500年的美索不達米亞地區(qū)。
The oldest known written language is 13)Sumerian, which 14)originated in 15)Mesopotamia around 3,500 B.C.
冰島的語言跟北歐海盜使用的古斯堪的納維亞語非常類似。
The 16)Icelandic language is remarkably similar to 17)Old Norse, the language of the 18)Vikings.
在中國說英語的人比美國多。
China has more English speakers than the United States.
在泰國語中,有人會使用“slave”代替“I”以示禮貌。
In 19)Thai, one shows politeness by using the word “slave” for “I”.
擁有最多語言的國家是巴布亞新幾內(nèi)亞,一共有830種。
The country with the most spoken languages is 20)Papua New Guinea—830!
第一個真正意義上的字母表被認為是希臘字母表。
The first true 21)alphabet is believed to be the Greek alphabet.
柬埔寨的官方語言高棉語有最大的字母表,一共有74個字母。
22)Khmer, the official language of Cambodia, has the largest alphabet, consisting of 74 letters.