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Ziad Youssef Fasah is a Liberian linguist, he claims he can speak 59 languages fluently. He’s a hyperpolyglot, linguist and revivalist who is a linguistics professor at the University of Adelaide Ghil’ad Zuckermann- Israeli-born linguist who resides in Australia.Ioannis Ikonomou- Greek translator for the European Commission, he speaks a whopping 32 languages!.Swami Rambhadracharya- Indian Sanskrit scholar and Hindu religious leader who speaks 22 languages!.He is famous for being able to speak a new language within a short period Richard Simcott- British linguist residing in Chester, UK.Fernando De Castro- a linguist, translator, interpreter and philologist who speaks 16 languages!.Lokesh Chandra- Indian Buddhism scholar who speaks 16 languages!.Péter Frankl- Hungarian educator, mathematician, street performer and columnist who speaks 12 languages!.Dilip Kumar- Indian actor who speaks 12 languages!.Jeong Su-Il- South Korean linguist and historian who speaks 12 languages!.Alexander Argüelles- American linguist who speaks 12 languages!.Alexander Pask- British teenaged businessman and translator who speaks 11 languages!.He was able to speak around 40 languages, however, some claim he could speak around 100 languages! Here are some notable polyglots One of the most well known hyperpolyglots is Cardinal Guiseppe Mezzofanti. If you meet someone with proficiency in 10 languages, be seriously impressed- you’ve met a hyperpolyglot. If you know a polyglot that is very rare! This only constitutes around 1% of the world’s population. Polyglot- someone who speaks 5 or more languages.Multilingualism constitutes only 3% of the world’s population.

Multilingual- someone who speaks four or more languages to an equal level of fluency.Trilingualism constitutes roughly 13% of the world’s total population Trilingual- someone who speaks three languages to an equal level of fluency.Bilingualism constitutes roughly 43% of the world’s population. Bilingual- someone who speaks two languages to an equal level of fluency.

Monolingualism constitutes roughly 40% of the world’s population.

Monolingual- someone who speaks only one language.

These definitions come from those stated on. But when you meet a hyperpolyglot, it will blow your mind… But what exactly is a hyperpolyglot?īefore we can define a hyperpolyglot, we need to define other language labels. When you meet someone who speaks one or two second languages, it’s impressive.