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Language in numbers

Left column

6000 languages
Mikael Parkwall, Limits of Language, 2008 K. David Harrison: When languages die, Oxford University Press, 2007

Number of speakers
Mikael Parkwall, Limits of Language (2008)

Bo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8498534.stm

Middle section

Rosetta Stone
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/t/the_rosetta_stone.aspx

1 letter (Norway)
http://www.fun-with-words.com/shortest_place_names.html

85 letters (New Zealand)
David Crystal: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, sixth printing, 2005, p. 115

American Sign Language
David Crystal: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, sixth printing, 2005 Mikael Parkwall, Limits of Language, 2008

400 genders
5 past tenses
Languages in Europe
3,7 Languages in Benin
2 numbers
11 official languages in South Africa
28 vowel sound
300 words a minute reading
All: Mikael Parkwall, Limits of Language, 2008

2000 Scandinavian words
David Crystal: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge University Press 2003

New Guinea
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2797.htm
Mikael Parkwall, Limits of Language, 2008

Mandarin
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=cmn

Tables at bottom

English knowledge
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_243_en.pdf

Illiterates
www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0858751.html
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=10513&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Kilde: Mikael Parkwall, Limits of Language, 2008 K. David Harrison: When languages die, Oxford University Press, 2007

Right column

Oxford English Dictionary
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7654511.stm

Chinese dictionary
Mikael Parkwall, Limits of Language, 2008

Esperanto
David Crystal: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (sixth printing, 2005), p. 355 Mikael Parkwall, Limits of Language, 2008 http://www.olestig.dk/sprog/esperanto.html

Na'vi (Avatar)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8408245.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%27vi_language

Klingon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language