The 26th of September - European day of languages.

Did you know that...

• The European Day of Languages has been celebrated every year since 2001 on 26 September.
• The aim of the day is to encourage people to learn more languages, at any age, in and out of school.
• There are between 6000 an 7000 languages in the world - spoken by 7 billion people divided into 189 independent states.
• Although most of the world's languages are spoken in Asia and Africa, and China and India are the most populated countries in the world, English is still the most widely spoken language in the world.
• There are about 225 indigenous languages in Europe - about 3% of the world's total.
• languages are related to each other like the members of the family. Most European languages belong to the large Indo-European family.
• Most European languages belong to three broad groups: Germanic, Romance and Slavic.
• Ukrainian belongs to the Slavic language group along with Russian, Belarusian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian and others.
• Most European languages use the Latin alphabet. Some Slavic languages use the Cyrillic alphabet.
• Ukrainian became the official state language of Ukraine in 1989.