European Day of Languages
European Day of Languages is held on September 26. European Union. This event in the third decade of the month September is annual. 
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Around 6,000 different languages are spoken around the world. Europe's 28 member countries account for 200 unofficial languages. European languages belong to three distinct groups: Germanic, Romance and Slavic. Basque is the only European language that doesn't belong to any of these three.
Celebrated on 26 September, the European Day of Languages (EDL) is a means of promoting awareness among the general public of the importance of language learning and protecting the linguistic heritage.
Can you imagine this? The Busuu language is spoken by eight people in the world! It’s the language of Southern Bantoid of Cameroon. There were 8 speakers of the language in 1986 and 3 in 2005.
At least more than half of the world’s population speak more than one language. More than half of the global population speaks 23 languages only. This is as compared to more than seven thousand languages is interesting.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
World Dream Day on September 25
World Pharmacist Day on September 25
European Researchers' Night on September 25
European School Sports Day on September 25 (the last Friday of Septembe);
International Ataxia Day on September 25
World Environmental Health Day on September 26
International Rabbit Day on September 26 (Held on the fourth Saturday in September);
European Mushroom Day on September 26 (Celebrated on the fourth Saturday of September);
World Rivers Day on September 27 (last Sunday of September);
World Retina Day on September 27 (Held on the last Sunday in September);
European Myeloma Day on September 27
International Daughters' Day on September 27 (Celebrated on the fourth Sunday of September)