These 51 phrases of the day of the language celebrate said date agreed to celebrate the importance of Spanish and in turn, in honor of Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, one of the most important literary works written in Spanish.
Curiosities of languages around the world:
- There are between 6,000 and 7,000 languages around the world, from 189 states and spoken by 7 billion people.
- Most languages are spoken in Asia and Africa.
- About half of the population is bilingual.
- The most widely spoken languages according to UNESCO (in order from highest to lowest) are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, German and French.
- 2,500 languages are in danger of extinction.
- People who know another language earn about 8% more.
- According to various studies, speaking several languages could delay brain aging.
-A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.-William Arthur Ward.
11-Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.-Mark Twain.
-We can have different religions, different languages, different skin colors, but we all belong to the human race.-Kofi Annan.
-If you speak to a man in a language he understands, it goes to his head. If you speak to him in his language, it goes to his heart.-Nelson Mandela.
-The language is the map of a culture. It tells you where people come from and where they go.-Rita Mae Brown.
-Of all the inventions of mass communication, images still speak the most universally understood language.-Walt Disney.
-The language of friendship is not the words, but the meanings.-Henry David Thoreau.
-Everyone laughs in the same way in every language because laughter is a universal element.-Yakov Smirnoff.
-There is no such thing as dead languages, only dominant minds.-Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
-Words have power.-Look Grant.
-The language is our homeland.-Albert Camus.
-A language puts you in the corridor of life. Two languages open every door on the way.-Frank Smith.
-The language of the heart is universal: it only takes sensitivity to understand and speak to it.-Jacques Duclós.
-We should have fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, signals of our ideas, and not things.-John Locke.
-The most famous and known language in the world is music.-Psy.
-The language is wine on the lips.-Virginia Woolf.
35-Every language is a temple in which the soul of which it speaks is locked.-Oliver Wender Holmes.
-Our language is the reflection of ourselves. Language is the exact reflection of the character and maturity of the speaker.-Cesar Chávez.
-The limits of my language are the limit of my world.-Ludwig Wittgenstein.
-The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.-Roger Bacon.
-If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a different world.-Ludwig Wittgenstein.
-Language is the blood of the soul from which our thoughts are formed and from which we grow. -Oliver Wendell Holmes.
-Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the beasts and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of demons. -Aldous Huxley.
-While a people preserves its language, it preserves the marks of its freedom.-Jose Rizal.
17-If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.-George Orwell.
-You cannot understand a language unless you understand two minimally. -Geoffrey Willans.
-The language is the means to bring an idea from my mind to yours without surgery.-Mark Amidon.
-In the language is the genealogical tree of a nation.- Samuel Johnson.
-To know how to speak another language is to possess a second soul.-Charlemagne.
-Language is the clothing of thought.-Samuel Johnson.
-Speak a new language so that the world is a new world.-Rumi.
-Language is the key to people's hearts.-Ahmed Deedat.
-With languages, you are at home anywhere.-Edward De Waal.
-Language forges the way we think and determines what we can think.-Benjamin Lee Whorf.
-The art of communication is the language of leadership.-James Humes.
-Language is a social art.-Willard Van Orman Quine.
-The silence is the silence of God, everything else is a poor translation.-Rumi.
35-Language is the source of misunderstandings.-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
-Language is the most imperfect and expensive means discovered to communicate thought.-William James.
-The only universal language is the kiss.-Louis Charles Alfred De Musset.
-A poet is, first of all, a person who is passionately in love with language.-WH Auden.
-We have many words with a strong meaning and so few actions that correspond to them. -Abigail Adams.
-Personally I think we develop language because of our deep need to complain.-Jane Wagner.
-The euphemisms are unpleasant truths dressed in diplomatic perfumes.-Quentin Crisp.
32-At no time is freedom of expression more precious than when a man hits his finger with a hammer.-Marshall Lumsden.
-We breathe in our first language and swim in the second.-Adam Gopnik.
-To speak improperly is not only to commit a fault in what is said, but to cause harm to souls.-Plato.
-The language is our second most precious possession to communicate, the first is the soul.- Lifeder.com.
-Before a foreign language, learn the one we should know from our first years of life; that of kindness, smiles and sincere gestures.- Lifeder.com.
-Learning a second language opens more doors than a million keys.- Lifeder.com.
-Not knowing English is the illiteracy of the 21st century.