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- **Indo-European languages** (~3 B native speakers): Most common language family, originating in Eurasia.
- **Germanic languages** (~500 M native speakers): Come from Scandinavia.
- **Afrikaans** (~7 M native speakers, *Wat is jou naam?*): Young language, very similar to Dutch and English.
- **Danish** (*Hvad er dit navn?*): TODO
- **Dutch** (Netherlands, [ena], *Wat is jouw naam?*): Similar to English but with added "grunting" pig sounds.
- **Danish** (~6 M native speakers, *Hvad er dit navn?*): Sounds a little bit like German and Dutch minus the pig sounds.
- **Dutch** (~25 M native speakers, Netherlands, [ena], *Wat is jouw naam?*): Similar to English but with added "grunting" pig sounds.
- **[English](english.md)** (~400 M native speakers, [eta], *What's your name?*): Most spoken language in the world (considering also non-native speakers), very simple grammar, fixed word order, no letters with accents, pronounces "r" as if "having a hot potato in mouth", awkward spelling of words, can't say the Spanish "j", is the universal world language of modern age, a must know for everyone.
- **Australian**: Very similar to UK.
- **Irish**: Most prominent feature is probably pronouncing "th" as "t" or "d", pronounce "r"s.
- **New Zealand**: Pronounce certain letters differently, e.g. "pen" sounds like "pin".
- **UK**: Sounds soft and arrogant, "r" is often silent.
- **UK** (so called "Bri'ish"): Sounds soft, snobby and arrogant, "r" is often silent, final "a" in a word may be pronounced as "r".
- **[USA](usa.md)**: Harder sound than UK, always pronounces "r" which also sounds very hard, which makes the language easier to understandable, "t" often sounds like "d", speakers open mouth very wide when talking.
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- **Italian** (~60 M native speakers, [eai], *Come ti chiami?*): Pleasant and melodic, very similar to Latin, sounds like singing, lots of vowels, stresses many times on first syllable. Body language such as waving hands in the air is a big part of speaking Italian correctly, recognizable by iconic phrases such as "spaghetti al dente, mamma mia!". Loanwords: intermezzo, lava, piano, ...
- **Portuguese** (~250 M native speakers, [aeo], *Como te chamas?*): Basically Spanish with funny pronunciation, speakers of the two languages can understand each other to a high degree. Loanwords: flamingo, tank, jaguar, ...
- **Romanian** ([eia], *Cum vă numiți?*): Sounds similar to Italian, has a lot borrowed from Slavic languages.
- **Spanish** (~500 M native speakers, [eao], *¿Cómo te llamas?*): Extremely fast, quite pleasant and similar to Italian, has normal and hard "r" (written *rr*), can't pronounce "h" (it's always silent), recognizable by patterns like "El XXXo", "Los XXXos" etc. Described by [Uncyclopedia](uncyclopedia.md) as "essentially Latin for retards", nonetheless spoken all over the world (it's the second most spoken native language) and therefore very useful to learn. Among students feared mainly for grammatical mood called subjunctive. In written form weird (and recognizable) by using the upside down question mark to start questions. Loanword: macho, caldera, mosquito, ...
- **Spanish** (~500 M native speakers, [eao], *¿Cómo te llamas?*): Extremely fast, quite pleasant and similar to Italian, has normal and hard "r" (written *rr*), can't pronounce "h" (it's always silent), recognizable by patterns like "El XXXo", "Los XXXos" etc. Described by [Uncyclopedia](uncyclopedia.md) as "essentially Latin for retards", nonetheless spoken all over the world (it's the second most spoken native language) and therefore very useful to learn. Has a rich vocabulary of swear words and phrases. Among students feared mainly for grammatical mood called subjunctive. In written form weird (and recognizable) by using the upside down question mark to start questions. Loanword: macho, caldera, mosquito, ...
- **Mexican**: Uses a lot of diminutives (e.g. "ahorita"), uses only formal form of plural "you" (ustedes), has specific words and meanings.
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- **Slavic languages** (~300 M native speakers): Hard to learn, many grammatical cases and inflections, spoken in central/east Europe and north Asia.
- **Bulgarian** (*как се казваш, "Kak se kazvash?"*): TODO
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- **Vietnamese** (~100 M native speakers, *Bạn tên gì?*): Typical Asian "meowing" sound, but despite this it's [interestingly](interesting.md) written in Latin script, which also excessively uses diacritics. It's a tonal language (pitches distinguish meanings of words).
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**Language curiosities**: Harold Whitmore Williams (*1876) allegedly spoke 58 languages and is sometimes considered the most accomplished polyglot. The most common sound found in all languages is "a", the most unique probably the Czech "ř". Language with smallest alphabet is probably Rotokas, spoken in Papua New Guinea, with only 12 letters. English word with the most meanings is apparently "set" (almost 200). Longest non-technical word in English is "antidisestablishmentarianism", but if we impose no limits, there is a name of a chemical that's 189819 letters long. TODO: more
**Language [curiosities](interesting.md)**: Harold Whitmore Williams (*1876) allegedly spoke 58 languages and is sometimes considered the most accomplished polyglot. The most common sound found in all languages is "a", the most unique probably the Czech "ř". Language with smallest alphabet is probably Rotokas, spoken in Papua New Guinea, with only 12 letters. English word with the most meanings is apparently "set" (almost 200). Longest non-technical word in English is "antidisestablishmentarianism", but if we impose no limits, there is a name of a chemical that's 189819 letters long. TODO: more
TODO: average word length, longest word, number of letters in alphabet, ...