The Oxford Dictionary says it's quite probable that English has more words than most comparable world languages.
The language with the largest vocabulary in the world is English with 1,025,109.8 words.
Arabic: 12.3 million words; English: 600,000 words; French: 150,000 words; Russian: 130,000 words.
That metaphorical process is at the heart of Toki Pona, the world's smallest language. While the Oxford English Dictionary contains a quarter of a million entries, and even Koko the gorilla communicates with over 1,000 gestures in American Sign Language, the total vocabulary of Toki Pona is a mere 123 words.
Language with the fewest words: Taki Taki (also called Sranan), 340 words. Taki Taki is an English-based Creole spoken by 120,000 in the South American country of Suriname. Language with the largest alphabet: Khmer (74 letters).
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Around 1,500 known languages may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. Current levels of language loss could triple in the next 40 years. Greater education and mobility marginalize some minor languages. One language per month could disappear, without intervention.
Sumerian language, language isolate and the oldest written language in existence. First attested about 3100 bce in southern Mesopotamia, it flourished during the 3rd millennium bce.
1,000,000 words is 2000 pages single-spaced or 4000 pages double-spaced. Typical documents that are 1,000,000 words or more include full-length novels. It will take approximately 3,333 minutes to read 1,000,000 words.
The Roman numerals are used to symbolize the Arabic letters which don't exist, or rather, the ones that have no phonetic equivalent in English. For e.g., the Arabic letter “ح” (Haa) can't be accurately represented with Latin characters and it is, therefore, represented by the number “7”.
juu:aan = Hungry. The colon in the word “juu:aan” represents one of the hardest Arabic sounds and does not have any sort of substitute sound in the English language.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word entered in the most trusted English dictionaries.
Ume Saami – Critically endangered
Saami is a family of nordic languages close to extinction. They are spoken by older generations in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. One of these languages is Ume Saami, which today is used by only 10 people living on the Ume River in Sweden and Norway.
One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. What is lost when a language goes silent?
1. English (1,132 million speakers) According to Ethnologue, English is the largest language in the world for both native and non-native speaker.
If we were to base our answer solely on the strict number of dictionary entries, English is among the largest languages by word count. It has more than 200,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary, including 171,476 words in use and 47,156 obsolete words.
Across multiple sources, Mandarin Chinese is the number one language listed as the most challenging to learn. The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center puts Mandarin in Category IV, which is the list of the most difficult languages to learn for English speakers.
The grammar of Hungarian is significantly different from that of Indo-European languages such as English. The language has no grammatical gender and it uses suffixes instead of prepositions which makes Hungarian one of the most difficult languages in the world.