Write Your Story

 Hi everyone. Hope everyone is having a nice week.

Today I have another page for Art Journal Journey and Elle's Language challenge. 

Depending on what language you speak,  it might has some kind of letters or written shapes. When I looked up spoken languages, I discovered that more than half of them have no written form. 

At  Language Hotspots from Swarthmore College, I discovered this interesting list of info about languages.

• There are around 7,000 languages spoken in the world today.

• More than half of the world's languages have no written form.

• Half of the languages spoken in the world today are predicted to disappear during this century.

• There are 2,000 languages spoken in Africa.

• 80% of African languages have no written form.

• Fewer than 10% of the world's languages can be considered entirely safe from endangerment.

• Most people in the world are bilingual or multilingual.

• A language dies every 14 days.

• Half of the world's languages are spoken in just eight countries.

• 96% of the world's languages are spoken by just 4% of the population.

• Over 10% of the world's languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea.

• In 1991, there were 181 languages that had fewer than 10 speakers.

• Over 80% of the languages spoken in the United States are endangered.

• Over 90% of the languages spoken in Siberia are endangered.

• There are over 100 languages spoken in the United States today.

• Half of the world's languages are spoken in Asia and the Pacific Islands.

• Only 4% of the world's languages come from Europe.

• There are over 200 endangered or recently extinct languages in Australia.

It was a really fascinating read, and if you have the time or interest it is worth checking out. 

Language allows us to tell stories. These stories may be passed orally from person to person, or they may be written down. My page today is about written stories.

Written letters or shapes may not be Roman style ones like I used on my page, and they may not go from left to right or even horizontal across the page. 

I used lots of letters on my page and stamped some vintage text too. I liked the kids reading that I added to the page also.

I wonder what language(s) their books are written in. And I wonder what stories they are reading.

That's all for me today. Tomorrow I will be back with my monthly book post, so if you are interested, you can see what stories I have been reading.

Thanks for visiting.