Languages☺

There are between 6000 and 7000 languages in the world - spoken by six billion people divided into 189 independent states. Cuneiform is the first form of written languages and it was used for over 3000 years.
The sign languages were invented by Abbé Charles-Michel de l'Épée, the first person who recognized the importance for the instruction of deaf children. Sign languages aren't universal because there are more than one sign language in a country, just as for oral languages. There are two sign languages in Belgium or in Spain.
Russia has by far the highest number of languages spoken on its territory: from 130 to 200 depending on the criteria.
The active vocabulary of a person can reach some 50,000 words; the words they know but do not use - their passive vocabulary - is somewhat larger.
The families in Europe with the most speakers are the Germanic, Romance and Slavic.
Germanic: Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish
Romance: Romanian, Occitan, French, Sardinian 

Slavic: Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Polish, Serbian and Czech.
In daily there are over 200 European languages.

The Celts

From around 750 BC to 12 BC, the Celts were the most powerful people in central and northern Europe. 
People said that they were tall, with muscles, with blond hair and they had mustaches that covered their mouth. The Celts believed in many gods and goddesses, in fact they were over 400. Many gods had no names and their lived in springs and woods. This population believed also that the human soul had an afterlife, so when a person died they were buried with many things. Warriors were often buried with a hamlet, a sword.
They lived in scattered villages. The walls of their houses were made from local material and the houses had no windows, but there was a hole in the roof for escaping the smoke.

The Lion and The Mouse

A Lion was sleeping peacefully when he was woken by something running up and down his back and over his face. Pretending to be still asleep, the Lion slowly opened one eye and saw that it was a little Mouse. With lightening speed the Lion reached out and caught the little Mouse in one of his large paws. He dangled it by its tail and roared:
-"I'm the King of Beasts! You'll pay with your life for showing me such disrespect!"
The Lion held the little Mouse over his huge open jaws and prepared to swallow it.
-"Please, please don't eat me, Mr King of Beats, Sir." squeaked the Mouse "if you forgive me this time and let me go I'll never, never forget it."
-"I may be able to do you a good turn in the future to repay your kindness" it squeaked.
-"You, do me a favor!" roared the Lion with laughter "that is the funniest thing I've ever heard."
Still laughing, the Lion put the Mouse down on the ground and said:
-"You've made me laugh so much I can't eat you now. Go on, off you go before I change my mind."
The little Mouse scurried away as fast as its little legs could go.
Not long after this the Lion was caught in a trap by some hunters. They tied him to a tree with a rope while they went to get their wagon. The little Mouse was nearby and came when he heard the mighty Lion's roar for help. The Mouse gnawed the rope with his sharp teeth and set the Lion free, and after that said:
-"I know you didn't believe me, but I told you I could help you one day" squeaked the little Mouse "even a little mouse like me can help someone as big and strong as you"
-"Thank you my little friend. I won't forget that lesson" said the Lion as he ran away before the hunters returned.