There are many languages around the world.

In Japan, they speak Japanese.

In Somalia, people speak Somali and Arabic.

In Ethiopia, people speak Amharic, Afar, and Oromo.

In India, people speak many languages: Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Urdu, and English.

Countries’s borders don’t limit where languages live.

There are people who speak Portuguese in Europe, South America, and Asia.

The same happens with Spanish-speaking people.

People from different ethnicities and religions may speak the same or different languages.

Linguistics studies how languages are formed, how they function, and which particularities each of them have.

In Nigeria, for example, there are more than 500 spoken languages and some of them don’t have a written form. So there is a big risk they might disappear if there is no one to speak them or to study them.

In some places, people speak more than one language.

People in Canada speak both French and English.