MAP OF ENGLAND ENGLISH LANGUAGE According to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is "American." Widow is the only female form in the English language that is shorter than its corresponding male term (widower). Victor Hugo's Les Miserable contains one of the longest sentences in the French language 823 words without a period. There is only ONE word in the English language with THREE CONSECUTIVE SETS OF DOUBLE LETTERS.... BookkeeperThere is a word in the English language with only one v owel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility." There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any ofits letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu. There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages