European Day of Languages

23/08/2016 18:17:22

Zdravo (Slovenian) // Hello (English) // Guten Tag / Hallo (German) // Buon giorno / Ciao (Italian) // Bonjour (French) // Labas (Lithuanian) // Doberman dan (Hungarian) // Buenos días / ¡hola! (Spanish)

Today, we celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe, as the European Commission and the Council of Europe declared this day as the European day of languages. On this day, Europe wants to draw attention to the importance of learning and knowledge of foreign languages.

We are aware of the importance of international cooperation and learning foreign languages, because this is the only way to recognize the cultural, social and professional opportunities, enrich the linguistic wealth and recognize the diversity of Europe and the rest of the world. 

The world speaks almost 7,000 languages, of which more than 50% of the languages are at risk of extinction – every two weeks one of these languages disappears. Approximately 90% of these languages are not represented on the Internet. Most of the language/Most languages – about 96% is/are spoken by only 4% of the world population.

The most “linguistics” country is Papua New Guinea where they speak more than 820 indigenous languages.

Slovenian alphabet consists of 25 letters, but in Chinese alphabet there are about 2000 characters! So let's be proud of our 25 characters.

At the end we would like to share a thought of a Slovenian writer Lojze Kovacic – “Language is the homeland that you can always take with you.”

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