Language Profiles from Africa Europe and South Asia

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Researchers in the PhD program at the Department of Veterinary Science at Hokkaido University, Japan, come from many different countries. Hearing about someone’s language is a good start to get to know them and their culture. • The following data is from www.ethnologue.com. Some of the figures are more than 10 years old and may not reflect the situation in 2015. • The figures represent number of world-wide native speakers. “L2” is a person's second language. “Family” refers to that primary language family to which the language belongs, according to Ethnologue. • 0:05 Ga: 600,000 Niger-Congo family • Twi: 7,000,000; Niger-Congo family (Ethnologue calls Twi a dialect of Akan language) • 0:43 Bemba: 4,100,000; Niger-Congo family • Lenje: 128,000; Niger-Congo family • 2:11 Arabic: 206,000,000 native speakers; 246,000,000 L2 users; Afro-Asiatic family • 3:09 Hungarian: 12,600,000; Uralic family • 4:26 Nepali: 15,400,000; Indo-European family • Hindi: 260,300,000 native; 120,000,000 L2 users; Indo-European family • 5:56 Bengali (Bengala): 189,300,000 native speakers; 19,200,000 L2 speakers; Indo-European family • 7:35 Sinhala: 15,600,000; 2,000,000 L2 users; Indo-European family (Suranji wants to mention that she should have said, “Singhala is the native language among the Singhalese people,” rather than the Sri Lankan people.) • Tamil: 3,800,000 in Sri Lanka; Dravidian family • This video was inspired by a www.coursera.com course titled “Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics” by Marc van Oostendorp of Leiden University, in which ‘language informants’ gave similar information about their respective languages.

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