Two Semitic languages are Arabic and Hebrew. These languages are part of the Afro-Asiatic language family and are spoken in the Middle East and North Africa.
Russian is the most common language in Europe, mainly due to the native speaking population (about 120,000,000 in recognized European boundaries alone). German is the next most common language, and is known by over half of all EU citizens. However, English is pretty much tied with German in number of speakers, and is spoken by almost half of EU citizens as well. Today, the most important languages of Europe are German and English, due to their power and influence throughout the continent and the world. French is also a common language, although not as popular as German or English.
Ziad Fazah holds the Guinness World Record for speaking the most languages. He is reported to speak 58 languages fluently.
They are called the Romance languages. The most common ones are:AragoneseAromanianArpitanAsturianCatalanCorsicanEmiliano-RomagnoloFrenchFriulanGalicianItalianLadinoLeoneseLombardMirandeseNeapolitanOccitanPiedmontesePortugueseRomanianRomanshSardinianSicilianSpanishVenetianWalloon
Papua New Guinea is known to have the most languages spoken on one island, with over 800 languages identified.
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It would be the richest country in the world if it were considered as a country. It would also have the 3rd largest population with over half a billion people. The EU consists of 27 countries with 2 more (Croatia and Macedonia) expected to join in the next few years. Hundreds of languages are spoken in the EU and it has 23 official languages. German, French and English are the most spoken languages. Other 'big' languages include Spanish, Italian and Polish. The EU has 3 alphabets - the Latin alphabet (i.e. English, French, German, etc.), the Cyrillic alphabet (Bulgarian and other languages which aren't yet part of the EU) and the Greek alphabet. Most EU countries have open borders between them meaning passports are never needed and border checks have been abandoned.
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The most common language of business is English. While the most common language of diplomacy is French. The most widely spoken first language in general in the EU is German.
The European Union makes the national language from each nation member an official language of the EU. For example, English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, etc. are all official languages of the EU. The EU does not recognize languages outside of the EU or on a minority scale within the EU, such as Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Norwegian, etc.
Definitely not.It is one of the principles that all languages in the EU are equal. All EU documents are translated into all official EU languages, that is all the official languages of all the member countries.This is one of the fundamental principles of the EU (as well as the principle that small countries are as important as large countries) because in European History there are many cases of languages being imposed, and large countries imposing their will on large countries, all of which this causes wars.My passport has the following languages on it:Bulgarian, Czech, Slovakia, Danish, Germany, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Slovenia, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
While Turkey is not an EU member state, there are numerous treaties between Turkey and the EU. Most important among these is the European Union-Turkey Customs Union of 1996.
The European Union, or "EU" for short, is made up of 28 member states that are based mainly in Europe. The EU's official motto is "United in diversity," and acceptable versions of this motto have been translated into 24 official languages.
The official newspaper of the European Union is the "Official Journal of the European Union." It publishes legal acts, such as regulations and directives, adopted by the EU institutions. It is available in multiple languages and is an important source of information for EU legislation and policies.
Europe that is why it is called the European Union - EU
Turkey admission in EU is not important for Romania.
Germany. She gives twice the amount she takes from EU.