\Funny Facts and Trivia about different languages ( Muneera)

- There are about 40000 characters in Chinese language.

- The word Taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Dutch and Portuguese languages .

- The `sixth sick sheik`s sixth sheep`s sick` is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

- There is no word for `weather` in the Hawaiian language, probably because the weather is so good most of the time.

- India has about 800 dialects and 15 major Languages.

- Hallelujah is Hebrew for `Praise the Lord`.

- The Balinese have no word in their languge for art or artist.

- In China there are more people who speaks English than in the U.S..

- In Indonesia they have over 300 different languages.

- Eskimos have more than twenty words to describe snow.

- Before the year 1000, the word `she` did not exist in the English language. The singular female reference was the word `heo`, which also was the plural of all genders. The word `she` appeared only in the 12th century, about 400 years after English began to take form. `She` probably derived from the Old English feminine `seo`, the Viking word for feminine reference.

- in China there are no difference between the word `Rice` and `food`.

- There are 160 words for camel in Arabic.

- Nigeria is home to about 400 languages.

- Jamaica is the largest English-speaking island in the Caribbean.

- There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

- In Chinese the words for crisis and opportunity are the same.

- `I am.` is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

- In Australia a banana bender means that a person comes from Queensland.

- The longest one-syllable words in the English language are `strengths` and `screeched`.

- In Chinese language China is called Zhong Guo. Zhong Guo means Land of the Middle.

- The number 9 in Thai means progression.

- The sentence `the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog` uses every letter in the English language.

- In Japanese the word for `different` and `wrong` are the same.

- The most difficult language to learn is Basque, spoken in northwestern Spain and southwestern France.

- In Japanese language there is no single word for water. They say mizu for cold water and oyu for hot water.

- No word in the English language rhymes with `month`, `orange`, `silver` or `purple`.

- The ampersand & was once a letter of the English alphabet.

- India is also known as Hindustan or Bharat by natives.

- The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".

- The word "karate" means "empty hand."

- "United Arab Emirates," a small country in the Middle East, is made up of alternating vowels and consonants. It is the longest name of a country whose letters do that.