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    How many languages are there?

    Question #86462. Asked by DarthYutsi. (Sep 26 07 8:13 AM)


    nina300

    		There is no definite count.
    Please, read: http://lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/howmany.pdf

    "There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today."
    http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/many-spoken-languages.html

    "There are 6,800 known languages spoken in the 200 countries of the world."
    http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html

    "...An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages."
    http://www.ethnologue.com/

    And the conclusion is... nobody knows!


    Sep 26 07, 8:57 AM

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