What's the rarest language?

Kaixana is tied for the title of rarest language in the world. In 2008, there was only one remaining speaker known to UNESCO's Atlas of the World Languages in Danger. The language originated in Brazil on the banks of the Japurá River, but it's likely to soon be extinct.
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What is the rarest language to learn?

Akorbi Lists Some of the Rarest Languages Still Spoken Today
  • Sarsi. Sarsi (also known as Sarcee), is a Native American language related to Navajo. ...
  • Dumi. Even rarer than Sarsi is Dumi, with only eight known speakers in the world. ...
  • Pawnee. ...
  • Chamicuro. ...
  • Kawishana. ...
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What is the world's least known language?

Current data states that there are only 7 remaining speakers of the language. Written records are available, such as a dictionary and several books that show the grammar and syntax of the Dumi language. Dumi is the world's least spoken language and one of the rarest.
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What is the most unique language?

Pirahã: The Most Unique Language in the World
  • What's the most unique language in the world? ...
  • Pirahã lacks basic sentence structure, undermining the long-held belief that sentence structure is something that all languages have in common. ...
  • Tonality isn't the only thing that makes Pirahã so unique.
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What is the most unpopular language?

What are the world's least spoken languages
  • Taushiro (Peru) Taushiro, also known as Pinche or Pinchi, is a very nearly extinct language from the Peruvian Amazon near Ecuador. ...
  • Tanema (Solomon Islands) ...
  • Lemerig (Vanuatu) ...
  • Njerep (Nigeria) ...
  • Ongota (Ethiopia) ...
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Top 10 Rare Languages Still Spoken Around the World



What's the easiest language?

15 of the easiest languages to learn for English speakers - ranked
  • Frisian. Frisian is thought to be one of the languages most closely related to English, and therefore also the easiest for English-speakers to pick up. ...
  • Dutch. ...
  • Norwegian. ...
  • Spanish. ...
  • Portuguese. ...
  • Italian. ...
  • French. ...
  • Swedish.
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What is a weird language?

Chalcatongo Mixtec is spoken mainly in Oaxaca, Mexico, and is considered the weirdest language because it is the most unique when compared to the other languages spoken throughout the world.
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What is the prettiest looking language?

When it comes to the most beautiful written language, Arabic has to be a strong contender. The beautiful cursive script has an inherent artfulness to it. And the beauty of Arabic writing is only compounded by the language's long poetic tradition.
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What is an uncommon language?

Turkish Bird Language:

Known as Kuş Dili in Turkish, this bird language is one of the most uncommon languages in the world.
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What are the slowest languages?

Mandarin. Mandarin is the slowest recorded language with a rate as low as 5.18 syllables per second.
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What languages will go extinct?

The 15 languages that could soon be extinct
  • Resígaro. In 2016, Rosa Andrade Ocagane, the last female speaker of the Amazonian language was murdered in Peru at age 67.
  • Chulym. Russia's 2010 census revealed just 44 speakers of the Chulym Turks' language. ...
  • Mudburra. ...
  • Patwin. ...
  • Ainu. ...
  • Chamicuro. ...
  • Vod. ...
  • Chemehuevi.
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Is Latin a dead language?

Similar to Sanskrit or Ancient Greek, Latin does not have native speakers, which qualifies it as a “Dead Language”. However, Latin had such an overwhelming prevalence in European and Western science, medicine, and literature, it may never be classified as an “Extinct Language”.
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What is the hardest language in the world?

1. Mandarin. As mentioned before, Mandarin is unanimously considered the toughest language to master in the world! Spoken by over a billion people in the world, the language can be extremely difficult for people whose native languages use the Latin writing system.
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What's a fun language to learn?

Spanish. Its usefulness aside (more than 400 million people speak it natively), Spanish is really entertaining to learn, especially in your first few classes when your mind will be filled with images of Speedy Gonzales, Puss in Boots, Dora the Explorer and other Latino or Spanish characters.
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What is the perfect language?

Sanskrit is probably the only known language in the world boasting of a context free grammar, which makes sentence formation utterly precise, based on set rules.
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Which language has best letters?

The Top Ten Most Beautiful Alphabets
  1. Russian. Number of letters: 33. ...
  2. Greek. Number of letters: 24. ...
  3. Hebrew. Number of letters: 22. ...
  4. Urdu. Number of letters: 52 (39 basic and 13 'extra characters') ...
  5. Sanskrit. Number of letters: 46. ...
  6. Javanese. Number of letters: 53. ...
  7. Tibetan. Number of letters: 30. ...
  8. Thai. Number of letters: 44.
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Is English a boring language?

From its mundane and inconsistent grammar and spelling rules to its inexplicable cultural identity, English can be boring for native and second language learners alike. Yet despite this, English is still the number one language studied around the world, making it most popular of all.
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How do you speak fake language?

7 Ways to Fake-Pronounce Any Foreign Language
  1. Pronounce ALL the letters. ...
  2. When someone says a word or phrase to you, try to repeat it with exactly the same intonation as they said it. ...
  3. De-English your vowels. ...
  4. Pronounce all of the vowels fully. ...
  5. Pronounce the r like a tap, instead of like English r.
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Why English spelling is so weird?

Modern English has a phoneme inventory of 44 sounds (with some variation according to dialect) but only 26 letters with which to write them. Since its very earliest days, this mismatch has been a key obstacle to spelling the language in a regular manner.
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What language is closest to English?

The closest language to English is one called Frisian, which is a Germanic language spoken by a small population of about 480,000 people. There are three separate dialects of the language, and it's only spoken at the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.
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What is the most advanced language?

English is by far the most powerful language. It is the dominant language of three G7 nations (USA, UK and Canada), and British legacy has given it a global footprint. It is the world's lingua franca. Mandarin, which ranks second, is only half as potent.
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Is it possible to read a language but not speak it?

But, some people may end up getting the shorter end of the stick — they can sometimes only understand a language without actually being able to speak it — a phenomenon officially called receptive multilingualism.
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Can you have 2 first languages?

One can have two or more native languages, thus being a native bilingual or indeed multilingual. The order in which these languages are learned is not necessarily the order of proficiency.
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