Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1897 — Spoken Languages, [ARTICLE]

Spoken Languages,

In ninety years the Spanish-speaking people of the world have increased from 26,190,000 to 42,800,000. The German and Spanish languages are remarkable for one fact, that every letter has a uniform sound. It Is said by Hebrew scholars that the same word in ancient Hebrew signifies blessing or cursing. T. Hewitt Key, and many other writers on the subject, attribute the invention of language to Adam. According to Max Muller, there are a few simple and fundamental roots, which are found in every language. At the beginning of this century the Russian language was used by 30,770,000 people, now it is spoken by 75,000,000.