Our planet is diverse in every aspect of life. Be it the flora, fauna, or human being each one can be defined as having its characteristics. Talking about human beings, the most significant thing would be discussing their capabilities and tendencies to be versatile. Record Of Speaking Most Languages
Each person surviving on Earth has some unique attributes and qualities that define him/her from others. It can be any character, extensive strength, etc., or his hobby to do something. But what about speaking multiple languages? Isn’t it shocking?
Subsequently, in this article, we have brought you the detail of a person who is known to carry a record of speaking most languages.
Who is a polyglot?
Every characteristic is specified with a word to give its clear definition. Similarly, a person who is able to speak many languages apart from his own is known as “a polyglot”. Polyglot is a combination of two small words, ‘poly’ which means many, and ‘glot’ taken from glottis, n organ present in the throat area of humans.
There are many people around the world who have this tendency of speaking many languages. Below is provided the example of one such person who is a record holder for speaking most of the languages.
About Ziad Fazah who Record Of Speaking Most Languages.
Every few milestones, the traditions, customs, and most importantly, the languages changes in our country (being it a minor change in accent for a few sentences or words). As already mentioned that a person knowing many languages is a polyglot. But the perfect polyglot is considered with the capability of a person about how fluent s/he is in speaking a particular language.
Ziad Fazah is one such polyglot. Born on 10 June 1954, Fazah hails from Liberia, hence called a Lebanese polyglot. He is observed claiming of knowing 59 different languages. He has proved this fact by making many public appearances where he has been able to ‘successfully’ communicate fluently with the native speakers of different regions of the world. Record Of Speaking Most Languages
Large numbers of foreigners have been coming t him to take a language test and he is the one who never denies it. He is ever ready to reveal his talent in front of the public. As per one of his statements, he does so to motivate others. He mentions that speaking many languages publicly can motivate and create an interest in an individual to do something unique, which is wrong in no way.
More about Fazah.
Fazah has been interviewed for being a polyglot now and then. Successively, during an interview, he said that God has found different ways to bless their child and he is the one bestowed with different languages as such a gift from god. Record Of Speaking Most Languages
- In 1998, the Guinness Book of World records observed his capability and got him such fame being a polyglot in a live cam in Greece.
- Presently Fazah lives in Porto Alegre in Brazil. Record Of Speaking Most Languages
Languages that Fazah can speak.
Some of the famous languages that Fazah is claimed to speak include Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Danish, French, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Malay, Mandarin, Nepali, Persian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Sinhala, Swedish, Tajik, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese, etc. As per GBWR, he knows 58 languages but speaks 59 languages at the present point of time.
