KIDS2019.03

ROBERT EASTMAN / SHUTTERSTOCK (1); DAN WALLACE / DREAMSTIME (2); ISTOCK / STOCKSNAPPER (3); KUTTELVASEROVA STUCHELOVA / SHUTTERSTOCK (4); VLADI333 / SHUTTERSTOCK (5); F9PHOTOS / SHUTTERSTOCK (6); JACOBA SUSANNA, MARIA SWANEPOEL / DREAMSTIME (7); CHEAPBOOKS / SHUTTERSTOCK (8); PHOTODISC (9, UNITED STATES FLAG); PIXELJOY / SHUTTERSTOCK (9, CHINESE FLAG); NATALIA MELNCHUK / SHUTTERSTOCK (11); ISTOCK / PJMALSBURY (12); SKYPIXEL / DREAMSTIME (13)

26 NAT GEO KIDS^ •^ MARCH 2019

More peoplespeak

Englishin Chinathan

in theUnited States.

Hippopotamus

means “river horse”

in ancient Greek.

The word“huh”

is used in at least

12 languagesto

express confusion.

Russian was the first language spoken in outer space.

language spoken

inSouth Africa,

chameleonsare called

verkleurmannetjies,

or“colorful little men ”

Rabbits rub their

chins on things like

their food to indicate

that the item belongs

to them.

Nearly

7,000 languages

are spoken worldwide.

Playwright

William

Shakespeare

is credited with

creating over

1,700 new words,

including

“eyeball” and

“swagger.”

Elephants make a

rumbling noise

to alert others when

they spot a beehive.

The Cambodian language has the world’s

largest alphabet—it contains 74 letters.

Kinshasa, the capital

of the Democratic

Republic of the

Congo, is the world’s

second largest

French-speaking city.

It takes approximately

480 hoursto learn a

THINGS

ABOUT

or colorful little men.

new language.

InAfrikaans,,a

Armadillo

means “little

armored one”

in Spanish.

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