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Tag: Arabic

Language by the numbers

Following on from my mini-series of posts on the English language, I was contacted by a reader who thought we might all be interested by this great graphic all about languages. I hope that you like it as much as I do!

Published May 3, 2018
Categorized as Culture, Life Tagged Arabic, Chinese, English, Foreign languages, Hindi, Internet, Language, Languages, Spanish, Websites

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