Which language has the shortest words?

Language with the fewest words: Taki Taki (also called Sranan), 340 words. Taki Taki is an English-based Creole spoken by 120,000 in the South American country of Suriname.
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What is the smallest speaking language?

The language with the smallest vocabulary in the world is a Creole called Taki-Taki (about 750 words) spoken in Suriname, South America. It is a curious mixture of West African, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Carib Indian elements with the English words predominanting.
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What language has the least amount of letters?

Rotokas, an indegeounous language to Papua New Guinea is the smallest known language in the world with a total of 12 letters!
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What is the shortest word to say in English?

There are five main vowels in Eunoia, which is the shortest word in the English language.
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Which is the easiest language in the world?

And The Easiest Language To Learn Is…
  1. Norwegian. This may come as a surprise, but we have ranked Norwegian as the easiest language to learn for English speakers. ...
  2. Swedish. ...
  3. Spanish. ...
  4. Dutch. ...
  5. Portuguese. ...
  6. Indonesian. ...
  7. Italian. ...
  8. French.
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What's the hardest language?

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 language is hardest to learn?

1. Mandarin Chinese. Interestingly, the hardest language to learn is also the most widely spoken native language in the world. Mandarin Chinese is challenging for a number of reasons.
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What word takes 3 hours to say?

You will be surprised to know that the longest word in English has 1, 89,819 letters and it will take you three and a half hours to pronounce it correctly. This is a chemical name of titin, the largest known protein.
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What 7 letter word has no vowels?

Not including plurals, there is only one seven-letter word which has none of the five vowels. That word is nymphly, which is a rare variation of 'nymphlike'. However, two six-letter words, glycyl and rhythm, can have an 's' added in the plural to make a seven-letter word without a vowel.
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Is there a word with all 26 letters?

An English pangram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. The most well known English pangram is probably “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. My favorite pangram is “Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.”
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What letter comes after Z?

The English alphabet : The letter z (Z uppercase) is the last letter, thus nothing comes after z. Simply so What is the 30th letter in the alphabet?
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What is the coolest language?

10 most fun languages to learn
  • English. Possessing a wealth of adopted words, English is an incredibly expressive, varied and flexible language (here are our nine reasons for why it rules). ...
  • Spanish. ...
  • 3. Japanese. ...
  • Sign language. ...
  • Brazilian Portuguese. ...
  • Turkish. ...
  • Italian. ...
  • German.
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What is the 27th letter in the alphabet?

Total number of letters in the alphabet

Until 1835, the English Alphabet consisted of 27 letters: right after "Z" the 27th letter of the alphabet was ampersand (&). The English Alphabet (or Modern English Alphabet) today consists of 26 letters: 23 from Old English and 3 added later.
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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 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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What language has only 123 words?

Toki Pona is the smallest language in the world. It is 123 words long, and takes about 30 hours to learn.
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Is y still vowel?

Y is considered to be a vowel if… The word has no other vowel: gym, my. The letter is at the end of a word or syllable: candy, deny, bicycle, acrylic.
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What word has all 6 vowels?

[...] Considering y as a vowel, the suffix -ly can be added to a number of these words; thus the shortest word containing six unique vowels in alphabetical order is aeriously, with nine letters (OED)[.]
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Which word has all 5 vowels?

Eunoia, at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels.
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Is there a word with 1000 letters?

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It's a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.
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What is the oldest word?

According to a 2009 study by researchers at Reading University, the oldest words in the English language include “I“, “we“, “who“, “two” and “three“, all of which date back tens of thousands of years.
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Is there a word without a vowel?

Words with no vowels. Cwm and crwth do not contain the letters a, e, i, o, u, or y, the usual vowels (that is, the usual symbols that stand for vowel sounds) in English. But in those words the letter w simply serves instead, standing for the same sound that oo stands for in the words boom and booth.
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Can a child learn 3 languages at once?

What we know is that children can learn multiple languages at once, and the benefits of being bilingual are endless. Learning multiple languages from birth is not a new phenomenon either. In fact, raising multilingual children is more common than most people think.
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Is English the easiest language to learn?

Despite these difficulties, English is actually the easiest language in the world to learn. You may think I'm crazy for saying this but allow me to explain. Unlike other languages, English has no cases, no gender, no word agreement, and arguably has a simple grammar system.
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Can you learn two languages at once?

Answer: Thankfully, your brain can definitely handle learning two (or more!) languages at once! (Two down, 6,998 to go.) But there are also some ways you can make this linguistic task easier on yourself.
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