What's the language with the most words?

Korean. Dictionaries are regarded as authoritative collections of words in a given language, so they might seem like a good source to use for answering this question. It looks like Korean tops the list with over a million words!

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What language has the most vocabulary?

The Oxford Dictionary says it's quite probable that English has more words than most comparable world languages. The reason is historical. English was originally a Germanic language, related to Dutch and German. English shares much of its grammar and basic vocabulary with those languages.

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Does Arabic have 12 million words?

Arabic has over 12 million distinct words. To put this into context, the Oxford English Dictionary includes just over 170,000 words. As one example, Arabic has 23 words for love.

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Which has more words English or German?

This means, the German language contains eight times as many words as the English language.In the everyday conversation, we use much less words: only 12.000 – 16.000 words including about 3.500 foreign words. The “Duden”, a popular reference book for grammar and orthography of the German language, lists 135.000 words.

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What is the hardest language to learn?

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.

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Language Comparison: Number of Different Words

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Which language has least 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.

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What is the longest Islam word?

Currently, the longest word in Arabic is the 15-letter-long word أَفَإِستَسقَينَاكُمُوها. Which means "Did we ask you to let us drink it?" However, according to some online sources the 16-letter-long word أَفَإِستَسقَينَاكُمُوهما is the longest word in Arabic meaning "Did we ask you to let us drink both of them?".

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Does English have 1million words?

If we want to talk about how many words there are in English, there are three key numbers to remember: more than a million total words, about 170,000 words in current use, and 20,000-30,000 words used by each individual person.

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Why do Arabs use 7 in 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”.

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Do nearly 7000 languages exist?

From Afrikaans to Zulu, Italian to Japanese, there are currently 7,117 known languages spoken by people around the world, according to Ethnologue, widely considered to be the most extensive catalogue of the languages of the world.

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What does 7000 words look like?

A 7,000 word count will create about 14 pages with single spacing or 28 pages double-spaced when using normal 1-inch margins, 12 pt.

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What is the oldest language in the world?

Sumerian can be considered the first language in the world, according to Mondly. The oldest proof of written Sumerian was found on the Kish tablet in today's Iraq, dating back to approximately 3500 BC.

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What language only has 100 words?

Sonja Elen Kisa, Sonja Lang). Toki Pona was constructed by the Canadian translator and linguist Sonja Elen Kisa (Sonja Lang).

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How many words does Eminem know?

Eminem (8,818 unique words); 2. Jay Z (6,899);

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How many Japanese words are there?

So does it count as one word or two? It is actually pretty hard to count them, and depending on what you think counts as a word, you can get wildly different answers. This is the largest reference for Japanese words, and it lists around 500,000. The answer is probably even much higher.

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Is 100k words a lot?

If you're writing your first novel, the general rule of thumb for novel writing is a word count in the 80,000 to 100,000 range. While anything over 40,000 words can fall into the novel category, 50,000 is considered the minimum novel length. Anything over 110,000 words is considered too long for a fiction novel.

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How much is $1000000 in words?

Hence, 1000000 in words is One Million.

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What does 1000000 words look like?

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.

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What do you say 33 times in Islam?

33 repetitions of subḥāna -llahi (سُبْحَانَ ٱللَّٰهِ), meaning "Glorified is God". This saying is known as Tasbih (تَسْبِيح).

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What is the longest word in Chinese?

The longest Chinese word is the character Biáng. The character consists of 58 strokes in traditional form and 42 strokes in simplified Chinese. The word refers to a particular style of noodles, made thick and flat like a belt.

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What is the hardest Arabic word to pronounce?

  • qahwah. قهوة feminine. (n) coffee. finǧān qahwah. ...
  • ṣabāḥ صباح masculine. (n) morning. ...
  • qalb. قلب masculine. (n) heart.
  • zanǧabīl. زنجبيل masculine. (n) ginger. ...
  • ẓarf. ظرف masculine. (n) envelope. ...
  • mašġūl. مشغول (a) busy. ʾanā mašġūlun al-yawm. ...
  • solḥefāh. سلحفة feminine. (n) turtle. ...
  • suʾāl. سؤال masculine. (n) question.

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What is the rarest letter?

In dictionaries, j, q, and z are found the least, but some of the words are rarely used. And if you value the opinion of cryptologists (people who study secret codes and communication), x, q, and z make the fewest appearances in the writing scene.

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What is the most spoken language in Australia other than English?

Overall, 72.0% of the population used English only, and 22.3% used a non-English language, compared with 65.5% and 29.5% respectively for Greater Capital Cities. The dominant language used at home, other than English, in Australia was Mandarin, with 2.7% of the population, or 685,268 people using this language at home.

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What is the simplest language?

Riau Indonesian is different from most other languages in how simple it is. There are no endings of any substance, no tones, no articles, and no word order. There is only a little bit of indicating things in time.

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