Some estimate that there are over three thousand languages in the world; and above a thousand different religions, including what are called "sects." English is spoken by above one hundred and thirty millions of the human race; German by one hundred millions; Russian by seventy millions; French by forty-five millions; Spanish by forty millions; Italian by thirty millions, and Portuguese by thirteen millions.

English is spoken by four million Canadians; over three and a half million West Indians; three million Australians; one million East Indians; thirty-eight millions in the British Isles, and sixty-three millions in America; besides Africa, Jamaica, etc.

German is spoken by two millions in the United States and Canada; two millions in Switzerland; forty thousand Belgiums; forty-six millions in the German empire, and ten millions in the Austro-Hungarian empire.

French is spoken by two and a quarter million Belgians; one million in the United States and Canada; one million in Algiers, India and Africa; six hundred thousand Swiss; six hundred thousand in Hayti; two hundred thousand in Alsace-Lorraine; and thirty-eight millions in France.