For an image, the term monochrome is usually taken to mean the same as black and white or, more likely, grayscale, but may also be used to refer to other combinations containing only tones of a single color, such as green-and-white or green-and-black.
Chinese has more native speakers than any other language, followed by Hindi and Urdu, which have the same linguistic origins in northern India. English comes next with 527 million native speakers. Arabic is used by nearly 100 million more native speakers than Spanish. The numbers are fascinating because they reflect the fact that two-thirds of the world's population share only 12 native languages.
guest2 Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:46 pm GMT. Average native speakers (and even unaverage) know nowhere near 60,000 words in English or any other language. The most careful studies show that even university-educated speakers top out at about 20,000 base words--and that's receptive, not active. For example, see the following study, which shows the average for university-educated speakers at about 17,000 base words: