Which language has more than 200000 words?

If we were to base our answer solely on the strict number of dictionary entries, English is among the largest languages by word count. It has more than 200,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary, including 171,476 words in use and 47,156 obsolete words.
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Which language has the largest number of words more than 200000 words )?

Still, it's a stretch to say that Korean has the most words of any language in the world because one of its dictionaries has over a million headwords.
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Which language has richest vocabulary?

A major uniqueness of Arabic language lies in its richness. While English, French, and Russian languages have around 500,000 words, 150,000 words, and 130,000 words in its vocabulary respectively, Arabic language has 12,3 million words in its own, making it the richest language in vocabulary, by far.
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Does Arabic have 12 million words?

Arabic: 12.3 million words; English: 600,000 words; French: 150,000 words; Russian: 130,000 words.
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How many Korean words are there?

According to the dictionary, there are over 1,100,000 words in the Korean language. However, some might argue that this is just a reference number, as countless combinations can be made to form words from jamos.
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Language Comparison: Number of Different Words



What is the hardest language to learn?

Across multiple sources, Mandarin Chinese is the number one language listed as the most challenging to learn. The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center puts Mandarin in Category IV, which is the list of the most difficult languages to learn for English speakers.
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What is the most powerful language?

The Most Powerful Languages in the World
  • Chinese: 1.51 billion people (native speakers: 899 million; second language speakers: 178 million)
  • English 840 million people (native speakers: 330 million; second language speakers: 510 million)
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Which language has the hardest vocabulary?

1. Mandarin Chinese. Interestingly, the hardest language to learn is also the most widely spoken native language in the world.
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What is the most fancy language?

Here are (in no particular order) the 10 most beautiful languages in the world, according to Busuu's experts
  • Italian. When it comes to the most attractive languages, for many people the native language of Italy likely springs to mind. ...
  • Arabic. ...
  • English. ...
  • (Brazilian) Portuguese. ...
  • 5. Japanese. ...
  • Turkish. ...
  • French.
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What is the longest Chinese word?

Jammu-sang, Lausanne, Jiumei, Tudanchoji Nyima. It is the Chinese character for "biang", and it is made up of 56 pen strokes.
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What is the longest word in German?

The longest word in the standard German dictionary is Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung – which is the word for motor vehicle liability insurance. But at 36 letters, it's rather puny. Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften, a touch longer at 39 letters, is the language's longest non-dictionary word.
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What are the longest Russian words?

Most likely one of the longest Russian words is a chemical term, тетрагидропиранилциклопентилтетрагидропиридопиридиновая (tetragidropiranilciklopentiltetragidropiridopiridinovaya), which contains 55 letters. It was used in Russian patent RU2285004C2 (granted and published in 2006).
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What language has the longest word ever?

Unfortunately, it's not a useful word for almost anyone as it's hardly something we'd use everyday. According to Guinness World Records, the longest word in the world is in Sanskrit. And it is 195 characters long.
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Is there a word bigger than Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?

While the monstrosity of the word we mentioned above is, indeed, the longest word in English, it's disputed whether it's even a word - which is why it's not recorded in any English dictionary. In that case, what's the longest word in the English language dictionary? It's pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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What is the longest written language?

In terms of the language that has the longest written history, that's probably Egyptian which later became Coptic (5,000 years). Sanskrit and Greek also come close.
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What is the 2 hardest language to speak?

Generally, if you're an English speaker with no exposure to other languages, here are some of the most challenging and difficult languages to learn:
  • Mandarin Chinese.
  • Arabic.
  • Vietnamese.
  • Finnish.
  • Japanese.
  • Korean.
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What is the 2 hardest language?

2. Arabic. Arabic is the queen of poetic languages, the 6th official language of the UN and second on our list of toughest languages to learn.
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What is the 7 hardest language to learn?

Which is the most difficult language for English Speakers?
  • 1 – Chinese (Mandarin)
  • 2 – Arabic.
  • 3 – Japanese.
  • 4 – Korean.
  • 5 – Hungarian.
  • 6 – Finnish.
  • 7 – Xhosa.
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Which is the fastest language?

The fastest language in the world is Japanese, and here is why. Languages are supposed to be equally great in functionality, since good things from other languages can be learnt and bad things in the language can be abandoned, making languages equally useful while specializing for the requirements of their speakers.
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What is the most talkative language?

According to Ethnologue, English is the most-spoken language in the world including native and non-native speakers. Like Latin or Greek at the time, English has become the world's common language. It is the default language in international business, tourism, technology, and much more.
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Who is No 1 language in world?

1. English – 1,121 million speakers. It is the most widely spoken language in the world because of the global impact of England and the United States in the last three centuries.
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What language did Jesus speak?

Most religious scholars and historians agree with Pope Francis that the historical Jesus principally spoke a Galilean dialect of Aramaic. Through trade, invasions and conquest, the Aramaic language had spread far afield by the 7th century B.C., and would become the lingua franca in much of the Middle East.
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What is the 3 hardest language in the world?

Unbabel Translates the 10 Hardest Languages to Learn, So You Don't Have To
  1. Mandarin. Mandarin is spoken by 70% of the Chinese population, and is the most spoken language in the world. ...
  2. Arabic. ...
  3. Japanese. ...
  4. Hungarian. ...
  5. Korean. ...
  6. Finnish. ...
  7. Basque. ...
  8. Navajo.
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What is the 5 hardest language?

5 of the most hardest languages to learn in the world
  • Mandarin.
  • Japanese.
  • Arabic.
  • Xhosa.
  • Russian.
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