Monday, May 9, 2011

0509WarmUp

How many languages are there in the world? Who speaks them?

Check it out @

http://arcgis.mla.org/mla/default.aspx

http://www.photius.com/rankings/languages2.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chartsbin/4642219295/sizes/z/

http://www.pstranslation.co.uk/infog_languages.html

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/

Leave a comment!

dmac

7 comments:

Robbie said...

I thinks its cool that we belive that english is the language mostly spoken in the world but we are blind to all the other languages that are also very frequently spoken. This really opened my eyes and goes to show how many different types of people live on earth.

childssowavvey said...

Freshhhh now ima learn Chinesee aha

Anonymous said...

the question was how many languages in the world are there yet this didnt answer that question.

payasito781 said...

Im wannna Learnn Chinese 2 :0

Anonymous said...

this warm up was cool because now i know what language to speak in surrounding cities

Mustapha Benzohra xD said...

For the couple of minutes I was in class, I learned that there are a lot of Chinese Speakers in San Fransisco, California.

dmacRHS said...

There are an estimated 6,700 recognized languages in the world. Most of them are spoken by fewer than 1,000 people.


Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_different_languages_are_there_in_the_world#ixzz1LrFaugKi