Презентация к Дню Европейских языков " The languages of the world"
презентация к уроку по английскому языку (11 класс)

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There are more than 8 billion people living on Earth and they all speak different languages . And there are more than 7 thousand languages on Earth itself . But what is "language"? Language is the most important link in culture As a rule, each nation speaks its own native language, which is one of the main signs of ethnicity . Some languages have common phonetic and grammatical features. The reason is that all modern dialects are descended from older ones, which eventually died out. Therefore, it is customary to combine languages into language families.

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Language families A language family is a group of languages related through linguistic kinship to a common ancestral language . According to the largest catalog of Ethnologue languages, as of 2023 there are more than 420 language families in the world. The big of them cover most modern adverbs: Sino-Tibetan — 457 ; niger-congo — 1551; Dravidian — 86; afro- asian — 382; indo — European - 446; Austronesian -1257. The Indo-European group is considered the largest, as about 3 billion people speak its languages. This includes English, French, Spanish, Greek, Russian

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Endangered languages Over time, many adverbs inevitably disappear. The most famous dead languages are Ancient Greek and Ancient Egyptian, Sanskrit, Latin, etc. Even now, hundreds of languages are on the verge of extinction, and there are fewer and fewer living ones.

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8 Main Languages The main languages include languages that are native to more than 50 million people. and which are owned by more than 200 million people They include: Chinese, English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, German and French.

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Bilingualism Of course, speaking of languages, it is impossible not to mention such a practice as "bilingualism" Bilingualism is the practice of alternating the use of two languages; knowledge of two languages and the ability to use them to carry out successful communication