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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Turkmenistan!

31May

By Gareth SeagullNo Comments

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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Turkmenistan!

A country in Central Asia, Turkmenistan is a nation perhaps best known for not being much of a nation at all, instead being a loosely united collection of nomadic tribes. In part due to this nomadic nature, the languages of Turkmenistan are immensely diverse. That, coupled with Turkmenistan's long history of being a part of many different empires, has only added to the country's linguistic diversity making it a truly unique case on the global scale. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Languages of Turkmenistan Turkmen Russian Other Languages of Turkmenistan Uzbek Kazakh Tatar Ukrainian Azerbaijani Armenian Kurdish Lezgian Persian Belarusian Erzya Korean Bashkir Ossetian Lak Tajik ...

Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Finland!

19Apr

By Gareth SeagullNo Comments

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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Finland!

Known for being the happiest country in the world and for its saunas, Finland isn't particularly well known for its linguistic diversity. Yet the languages of Finland are some of the most impressive of any European country we've studied to date. Home to almost two dozen languages from three continents and nearly 20 different language families, no one can deny that Finland's linguistic diversity isn't impressive... (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Languages of Finland Finnish Swedish Minority Languages of Finland Sami Karelian Kalo Immigrant Languages of Finland Hebrew Yiddish Tatar Russian Estonian Somali Arabic Kurdish Albanian Chinese Vietnamese Persian Thai Spanish Ur...

Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Lebanon!

4Jan

By George SanghviNo Comments

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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Lebanon!

Famous for its longstanding hostility with its neighbor Israel, and more recent civil war that saw more than a million flee the country, Lebanon isn't famous for its linguistic diversity. Yet the languages of Lebanon may in fact be the most interesting thing about the country! A former French colony that later became a hub for American oil interests, most people in Lebanon speak a mix of Arabic, French and English, whilst others speak various languages from other parts of the world... (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Language of Lebanon Arabic Dialects of Arabic Spoken in Lebanon Lebanese Arabic Cypriote Maronite Arabic Syrian Arabic Palestinian Arabic Iraqi Arabic Foreign Languages of Lebanon English French ...

Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Syria!

28Dec

By Henry AusbergerNo Comments

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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Syria!

Once a vibrant hub of trade, culture and commerce now embroiled in a bloody civil war, chances are you rarely think about Syria, let alone the languages of Syria. But interestingly, there some of the most diverse in the notoriously uniform Middle East. Indeed, the country of 17.5 million inhabitants has languages from all corners of East and West, including those with hundreds of millions, if not billions, of speakers worldwide and others, with only a few million located solely in Syria. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Language of Syria Arabic Dialects of Arabic Syrian Arabic Levantine Arabic Damascus Arabic Lebanese Arabic Homs Arabic Hama Arabic Tartus Arabic Iraqi Arabic Palestinian Arabic Foreign ...

Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Turkey!

28Sep

By George SanghviNo Comments

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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Turkey!

Turkey is often at the center of some kind of controversy, often to do with human rights violations, a lot of this has to do with the languages of Turkey and the different ethnic groups that speak them. A country of 82 million, Turkey is home to literally hundreds of ethnic groups and languages, some spoken by millions of people across the country (not to mention the world!) whilst others are only spoken in a handful of villages in a remote part of the country. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Language of Turkey According to Article 3 of the Turkish Constitution, there is only one official language of Turkey: Turkish (66.5 Million) Minority Languages of Turkey Though Turkish is the official language of Turkey, it is by no m...

Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Texas!

31Aug

By David Ratón GonzalesNo Comments

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Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Texas!

Texas is known for many things. Among those things is how multicultural the state is, even if many in the state don't necessarily know it. Though most famous for speaking both English and Spanish, the languages of Texas are far more diverse than that. Indeed, Texas is home to speakers of some of the most spoken languages on the planet. But it's also home to endangered languages that only have a few thousand speakers at best and may not survive to the end of our lifetimes... (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Official Languages of Texas Much like the US itself, the Constitution of Texas doesn't any official language(s) of the state. However, in reality, the state has three official languages thanks to subsequent legislation: English Spanish ...

20Jul

By Chloe HarmonNo Comments

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15 Most Spoken Languages in Europe!

Europe is a vast continent with hundreds of millions of people in it, with vastly different cultures, and languages to go with it. So this got me thinking, what are the most commonly spoken languages in Europe? (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 15. Russian - 150 Million Being the largest country on earth, Russia is both a European and Asian country, with the majority of its population being in Europe, whilst the majority of its land is in Asia. As such, Russia's huge population, most of whom speak Russian as either a first or second language, makes Russian the most spoken language in Europe! Outside of Russia, there are also large Russian-speaking communities in most of the countries that formerly made up the Soviet Union (where Russian se...