LANGUAGES AROUND

THE WORLD
BASICS AND DEFINITION OF LANGUAGE
• structured system of communication created by humans
• it can be based on writing, speech, sign etc.
• language has also a structure based on grammar and vocabulary
HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE
• often is considered that the formal study has started in India with Panini (5th century BC)
• Sumerian scribes have already studied grammar and difference between Sumerian and
Akkadian grammar way before Panini (1900. BC)
• AD, there was a lot of changes, new rules and definitions about language, more
informations and knowledge about it

Sumerian alphabet
LANGUAGE PART IN THE BRAIN
• the brain has its own areas for languge and possibilities for talking
• There are two areas that are included in language processing
• first area is called Wernicke’s area and the second one Broca’s area
• there are more than million languages around the world

• because of the really similar structures, grammar or

vocabulary in some of them, we separated them into
language families

• Indo-European language family is one of the biggest and

well known

AROUND THE WORLD

INDO-EUROPEAN FAMILY
• except one big family of languages, we can separate it into more smaller or we can call
them co-families
% AND NUMBERS OF SPOKEN LANGUAGES
DID YOU KNOW…
• there’s a language spoken by only 8 people?
• there’s no official language in the USA?
• the smallest alphabet in the world has only 11 letters?
• fastest spoken language is Japanese?
• a language that’s not similar to any of language we know exists?
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