About 60 percent of people identify English as their first language, while 24 percent claim French.

约有60%的人将英语作为他们的第一语言，而24%的人则选法语。

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So while many African languages had more than 100 phonemes, Hawaiian language had as few as 13. English, French and German had about 45 each.

所以，许多非洲语言有100多种音素，夏威夷语言只有13种，而英语、法语以及德语各自有大致45种音素。

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French is the second most spoken language with about 40%, and German is spoken by less than 1% of the population.

法语是第二大主要的语言，大约40%的人口讲法语，讲德语的人口少于1%。

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and they reply in German, "Yes, I'm French," that doesn't--language doesn't necessarily tell you how people feel about their identity. Some sage once said, I don't know who it was, but I love this expression, that a language is a dialect with a powerful army.

然后他们用德语回答,"我是法国人",不一定--语言不一定能代表,对自己的身份认同,有个哲人说过,我忘了是谁,但我特喜欢这句,说语言就是有强大军队撑腰的方言

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For the French, traditionally so snooty about their language, that requires sacrifices.

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