Itâs estimated that up to 7,000 different languages are spoken around the world. 90% of these languages are used by less than 100,000 people. Over a million people converse in 150-200 languages and 46 languages have just a single speaker! Languages are grouped into families that share a common ancestry.
All U.S. citizens are considered to be U.S. nationals, but not all nationals are citizens: natives of American Samoa and Swainâs Island (AS) are not U.S. citizens but are nationals. Select Eligible noncitizen if you are not a U.S. citizen (or U.S. national) and you are one of the following:
Posts: 4,054. Well, the fact is that although there seems to be a bit of contradiction in it, we DO call people born in the USA Americans. Since no other country in North or South America contains the word America in its name, it seems to fit ok. Those folks from South America or North America call themselves by terms associated with their own contries-and that's what we do.