The European Day of Languages, observed on September 26, is intended to raise public awareness of the significance of language acquisition and the preservation of linguistic history. 

• The majority of European languages are classified as belonging to one of three linguistic families: Germanic, Romance, or Slavic. 
• There are approximately 225 indigenous languages in Europe alone, accounting for approximately 3% of all languages spoken worldwide. 
• Over the previous thousand years, European languages have been in continual touch with one another, owing mostly to intellectual people of society travelling and speaking five different dialects. 
• Most European nations contain a variety of regional or minority languages as a result of centuries of continual migration of migrants and refugees. In London alone, 300 distinct languages are spoken! 
• The most frequently spoken non-European languages in Europe are Arabic, Chinese, and Hindi. 
• German has the longest word of any European language, and it is the only language in the world that capitalises nouns. 
• Catalan is the second most spoken language in Spain, with 6 million people speaking it. It is spoken in Catalonia, on the nation’s east coast.