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1.English is the hardest language to learn.
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The difficulty of a language depends on what the speaker already knows. While someone who speaks Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, etc. might have a hard time learning English, native speakers of most Romantic and Germanic languages won't have that much difficulty learning English compared to similar languages.
2.Mandarin has the most speakers worldwide.
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While Mandarin has the most native speakers, it's outspoken by English, which has more people learning it as a second language.
3.The letter "Þþ" (Thorn) is still used in use in at least one language.
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Icelandic is the only living language that still uses the thorn.
4.The Bible is the most translated book.
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The Bible has been translated into at least 3,000 languages.
5.All languages come from Latin.
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6.Valencian and Catalan are mutually intelligible languages.
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7.Brazil does not have an official language.
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Brazil does have an official language; Portuguese
8.English is the only language that uses contractions
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A lot of Romantic languages also use contractions.
9.Polish uses the Cyrillic alphabet.
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Polish uses a slight variation of the Latin alphabet.
10.There are 29 letters in the Norwegian alphabet.
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Norwegian has æ, ø, and å, along with the other 26 letters of the Latin alphabet.