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Since then, the island has embraced this native language. A Papiamento dictionary and fairy tales written in Papiamento are now readily available on the island. Aruba is a multilingual society. Most of Aruba's population is able to converse in at least three of the languages of Papiamento, Dutch, English, and Spanish.
Number of living languages Number of speakers Established Immigrant Total Percent [note 1] Total Mean Median Papua New Guinea: 840 0 840 11.81 4,213,381 5,040 1,315 Indonesia: 707 2 709 9.98 222,191,197 315,165 3,500 Nigeria: 525 7 532 7.37 163,317,444 348,225 14,000 India: 453 6 459 ? 1,257,421,714 2,924,237 35,000 China (mainland only) 302 3 305
The city of Toronto is one of the most multilingual cities in the world. [88] It is the home to over a dozen daily media outlets of different languages, including the Italian daily Corriere Canadese [89] and the Chinese daily Sing Tao. [90] Greenland: Greenlandic is the official language.
For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect. For example, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic, other authors consider its mutually ...
Official language in: Aruba, Kingdom of Belgium, Country of Curaçao, , the Netherlands, , Sint Maarten, , and Republic of Suriname, Dutton World Speedwords – rapmotz International auxiliary language; Dyula – Julakan Spoken in: Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Mali; Dzongkha – རྫོང་ཁ་ Official language in: Kingdom of Bhutan
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In the Foreign Service Institute’s language classification system, the most difficult languages are at Category 5. These take 88 weeks or 2,200 hours of classroom time to reach proficiency.
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