People and Language Trivia

The world's population grows by some 100 million each year.
Some 950 million people in the world are malnourished.
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The average male adult is 5'9'' tall and weighs 155 pounds.
The average female adult is 5'3'' tall and weighs 125 pounds.
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There are 106 boys born for every 100 girls.
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Como se' huh?
There are more than 2,700 languages in the world. In addition
, there are more than 7,000 dialects. A dialect is a
regional variety of a language that has a different pronunciation
, vocabulary, or meaning.
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B-A-S-Q-U-E
The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is
spoken in northwestern Spain and southwestern France. It
is not related to any other language in the world. It has
an extremely complicated word structure and vocabulary.
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Click-Click-Clack
More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the
continent of Africa. Many languages in Africa include a
"click" sound that is pronounced at the same time as
other sounds.