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title: Countries, peoples and languages of the world — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Countries, peoples and languages of the world», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: About 8 billion people live on Earth, in about 195 countries; a country has its own borders, its own government and its own sy
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# Countries, peoples and languages of the world

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Lesson 46 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/0/) — About 8 billion people live on Earth, in about 195 countries; a country has its own borders, its own government and its own symbols, such as a flag and an anthem.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/1/) — Countries are very different in size: Russia is the largest country by area and Canada the second, while Vatican City, inside the city of Rome, is so small that you can walk across it in a quarter of an hour.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/2/) — People speak about 7,000 different languages; some are spoken by hundreds of millions, like Chinese, English, Hindi and Spanish, and some only by a few hundred people in one valley.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/4/) — Languages are related like families: English, German and Dutch are cousins in the Germanic family, so many words look alike, such as water and Wasser; Ukrainian, Polish and Czech are cousins in the Slavic family; Spanish, French and Italian all grew from Latin.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/5/) — About 8 billion people live on Earth.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/6/) — There are about 195 countries in the world.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/7/) — Russia is the largest country by area, and Canada is the second largest.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/8/) — Vatican City is the smallest country in the world.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/9/) — India and China are the two countries with the most people, each with more than 1.4 billion.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/10/) — People in the world speak about 7,000 different languages.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/11/) — Mandarin Chinese has the most native speakers of any language.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/12/) — English is the language most widely learned as a second language.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/13/) — Canada has two official languages, English and French.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/46-countries-peoples-languages/14/) — English, German and Dutch belong to the Germanic family of languages.

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