Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, and Swedish
First year 2001
225 indigenous languages in Europe
Council of Europe 47 states 820.000.000 people
European Union, 28 states, 500.000.000 people
24 official languages
"To have another language is to possess a second soul."
~ Charlemagne~
"One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way."
~Frank Smith~
“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
“To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian,
to men French, and to my horse - German.”
~ Emperor Charles V ~
EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES