Language policy of foreign countries
Scientists combined all languages on the planet in 19 linguistic families. The most common languages are Chinese, Indian, English, Spanish, Russian and some others. At the same time many languages, the number of which is less than one hundred thousand, are endangered. Democratic language policy is carried out in Switzerland, where are 4 official languages. In a number of other European countries (England, Spain, Belgium), as well as in the United States and Canada, the ethnic composition of the population has a great impact on the problem of the unity of states. There is a kind of bilingualism in Latin America (Spanish and Indian languages, in Brazil there are Portuguese and Indian languages). In China the state language is Han, in India - Hindi, South Africa is characterized by multilingualism.