Task 1

Please do quick research about facts for the following languages

FACTS Language

1 Seventy-five percent of French citizens did not speak French French

as a native tongue at the time of the French revolution.

Until the 1800s, French was a language that was more widely
spoken in Holland and Germany than it was in some parts of
France.
2 Euskera, language isolate, the only remnant of the languages spoken Euskera
in southwestern Europe before the region was Romanized in the 2nd
through 1st century BCE.

3 Historically, the standard Italian alphabet has only 21 letters as J, K, Italian

W, X and Y aren’t used in Italian words but only in foreign loan words
or, less frequently, in old writings.

4 The Dutch words made it into English often via the Dutch colons Dutch
settling in the American colonies in the 17th century. Examples of
Dutch loanwords include apartheid, bamboo, bazooka, blink, bluff,
brandy, coleslaw, cookie, cruise, drill, gherkin, gin, iceberg, Santa
Claus and waffel.

5 Greek has also influenced languages, mathematics, astronomy Greek

and philosophy. Many English words related to these fields are of
Greek origin. Along with Latin, Greek is still used for creating new
words in English and other languages.

6 Wayuu is an Arawakan language spoken on the Guajira Wayuu or Arawak

Peninsula in northwestern Venezuela and northeastern Colombia

7 Catalan is an official language in Andorra, Catalonia, the Catalá

Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community and a co-official
language in the Italian city of Alghero in Sardinia

8 Spanish uses inverted exclamation and question marks to Spanish

highlight the exclamation or question part of a sentence.

9 Nearly 200 million people around the world speak German. German
While this is not as high as languages like Spanish, English, or
Chinese, it’s still one of the most popular languages.

10 with Brazilian Portuguese being heavily influenced by Italian Portuguese (from

and other non-Portuguese colons. Brazil)