How many different languages are there?

elburcher

At present there are about 6,900 known languages. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/12/19/how_many_different_languages_are_there?mode=PF Jun 30 06, 11:31 AM

zbeckabee

The Ethnologue contains statistics for 6,912 languages in the 15th edition, released in 2005 (up from 6,809 in the 14th edition, released 2000) and gives the number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliations, availability of the Bible, and so forth. It is currently the most comprehensive existing language inventory, along with the Linguasphere Register. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnologue (Ethnologue lists about 7,300 main languages in its language name index (see the external link) and distinguishes about 39,491 alternate language names and dialects.) Following Link Lists Languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages Jun 30 06, 11:48 AM

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