Languages of the European Union
1)
Official EU languages
The languages of the European Union are languages used by people within the member states of the European Union (EU)
In the European Union, there are 24 officially recognized languages and over 60 minority languages. Out of the official languages, it appears that English, French, and German have a higher status compared to other languages.
All languages of the EU are also working languages
LANGUAGE
OFFICIAL IN
LANGUAGE
OFFICIAL IN
Croatin
Croatia
Slovenian
Slovenia
Bulgarian
Bulgaria
Finnish
Finland
Irish
Ireland
Swedish
Sweden, Finland
Romanian
Romania
Portuguese
Portugal
Czech
Czech Republic
Spanish
Spain
Estonian
Estonia
Greek
Greece, Cyprus
Hungarian
Hungary
Danish
Denmark
Latvian
Lavtia
English
Ireland, Malta, UK
Lithuanian
Lithuania
German
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg
Maltese
Malta
French
Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Polish
Poland
Dutch
Belgium, Netherlands
Slovak
Slovakia
Italian
Italy
2) EU
Most spoken languages in the
It is known that English, French, and German have a higher status compared to other languages.
→ English The English language in the European Union, as a native language, is mainly spoken in the United Kingdom and Ireland. At a national level is the most widely spoken foreign language in 19 of the 25 Member States where it is not an official language.
→ French Spoken by 12% of the European Union's population, French s the third-most widely known language of the Union after English and German. French is the official language of France and also one of the three official languages of Belgium, along with Dutch and German.
→ German German is the official language of Germany, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg.
As English is well established as the first foreign language, German ranks second among the best known foreign languages in the EU. Within the EU, not counting countries where it is an official language, German as a foreign language is most popular in Eastern and Northern Europe.
3)
Endangered languages Wymysorys
Karaim
In each country you can find more than one endangered language or dialect. Here are some of them.
Pite Sami
→ Wymysorys → Country: Wilamowice, Poland → Native speakers: 70
→ It was suppresed after World War II.
→ Pite Saami → Country: Norway-Sweden → Native speakers: 25-50 → Pite saami is one of the languages of a group of languages called Saami. → Some of the dialects of the language are endangered.
→ Karaim → Country: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Crimea. → Native speakers: 80
Lithuania
→ Most speakers live in Lithuania.
→ Minority language in Ukraine and Poland.
Poland
Ukraine
→ Manx → Country: Isle of Man UK → Native speakers: 10→ Country: Isle of Man UK → Native speakers: 100 → Celtic language → Last speaker passed away in 1974 → It was revived0 → Celtic language
→ Last speaker passed away in 1974
4)
Fascinating Facts
1) Albanian
4)
English
Every 98 minutes a new word is created.
5)
Georgian
The feeling of eating without limit.
2)
Basque
Is the only European language that isn’t related to any other language
3)
Dutch
During WWII the Dutch identified Germans by asking them to pronounce the name of the Dutch city, Scheveningen.
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Italian
The longest Italian palindrome (it reads the same backwards and forwards) is onorarono which means ‘honoured’.
7) Gomero
Silbo
A whistling language exists: Silbo Gomero is “spoken” by inhabitants of the Canary Island La Gomera.
Fascinating Facts 8)
9) 54% of Europeans are bi-lingual, 25% can speak two foreign languages and 10% can speak at least three.
The longest word
The Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes coined the 183 lettered
lopado-temacho-selacho-galeo-kranio-
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Czech
Czech has many words that are made up
entirely of consonants; for example krk ('neck'); prst ('finger')...
leipsano-drim-hupotrimmatosilphiokarabo-melito-katakechumeno-kichlepikossuphophatto-peristeralektruon-
11) Latvian and Lithuanian
opto-kephallio-kigklo-peleio-lagoio-
Are the only two living languages from the Baltic languages family.
siraio-baphe-traganopterugon meaning a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish,
12)
fowl and sauces.
Over a 60-70% of the world's scientific literature is published in Russian.
Russian
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