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.
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I will argue here that when Americans say they want immigrants to assimilate, they may think they know what they want, but in fact they donât understand the concept or its place in our history. Indeed, if Americans better understood the process of assimilation, they might well ask for something else.