Does enyone know exactly how many languages are there in the world?
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I don't think anyone knows for sure.  Many thousands.  For example the Inuktitut language (of northern peoples formerly called Eskimo) might be counted as one language.  However, there are several different versions - at least three in Canada, Alaska is probsbly different again, Greenland different again, etc.  At best there are estimates about the number of languages.
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approximately 62 languages
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yes there is like a 600 million people that speaks spanish, but if you want to practice with me, i'm here to help you, here's my email: numbpisces@yahoo.com
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There more than 100 Languages in Africa .
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There are 194 independent countries in the world.\n\n"Depending on your criteria and definition of a country, the current count can range anywhere from 189 to 266 or so."
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Unknown. We don't even know for certain how many there are now. There's at least three, but some scientific research indicates there may be as many as 11.
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Ethnologue lists about 7,300 main languages in its language name index and distinguishes about 39,491 alternate language names and dialects.
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Go to http://www.worldsoccershop.com/\nall 32 nations are available in this site.
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There are 194 countries in the world today
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It would be interesting to know how many languages the average American knows.  One of the things that I always found disturbing is that even if an American takes a foreign language class, the American will rarely make the attempt to practice using the language.  \n\nThink about it, how many people do you know take Spanish?  Quite a few.  How many actually try to speak the language?  I am shocked when I am a manager or teacher, and I see a room of employees or students scared to speak a word of Spanish to a person that might be struggling.  I understand that there are many ethical and political questions whenever speaking a foreign language.  For goodness sake, we're the land of immigrants and we need to step up.\n\nYes, I am proud to say that I have made the attempt and have spoken both Norwegian and Spanish to native speakers.  I have even spoken the few words of German, Russian, and Korean that I know as well.  Please keep in mind, that the only languages I can truly speak are English, Spanish, and Norwegian.\n\nRather than concentrating on how many languages are learned, let's focus on actually applying our knowledge of the international community.  One world, one people.  We can communicate and come together.
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One authoritative source that has collected data from all over the world, The Ethnologue, listed the total number of current languages in the world as 6809 (1).  These languages have come from about 20 “proto-langauges.” A “protolanguage” is simply:  a ”recorded ancestral language.”\n\nBased on the criteria of your question the answer is:\n\nAramaic\n\nAramaic is one of the world's oldest languages.  Last year, Aramaic was heard by large audiences in the film "Passion of the Christ", which portrayed the last 12 hours of Christ’s life.  Today this ancient language is spoken by around 15,000 people and is in danger of dying out.\nAramaic precedes Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Sanskrit and is also older then the “proto-language” from which Chinese originated.
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"29. How many languages has the Bible been translated into?\nThe Holy Bible has been translated into 2,018 languages, with countless more partial translations, and audio translations (for unwritten languages). (This is an enormous amount of translations. In comparison, Shakespeare, considered by many to be the master writer of the English language, has only been translated into 50 languages.)"
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The best lists range in number from 3000-8000.  Most linguists use 5000 or 6000 as rough estimates.  I personally prefer 6000 since I use that number in a little exercise in my linguistics classes.  If each of six people learned 1000 languages, one of them would live in the Americas, one of them would live in Europe and Asia, two of them would live in Africa, one of them would live on Australia and all the islands of Asia and the Pacific, and one of them would live on the island of New Guinea
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By Most Accounts, 193 is the Correct Answer\nA very frequent geographical question is "How many countries are in the world?." Different numbers pop up when one inquires or reads about the number of countries in the world. Each source you use often yields a different answer.
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This is not true.  In the 19th century, some linguists proposed this as a possibility, but it has since been disproven.\n\nInitially, linguists thought that all world languages fell into four groups: Indo-European, Australo-Asiatic, Afro-Asiatic, and Sino-Tibetan.\n\nPeople had not yet really looked into Native American languages.  When it became clear that there were many languages worldwide that did not fit into the basic scheme of 4, linguists had to rethink everything.\n\nToday, it has become clear that there are hundreds of language families, and the basic four groups have been placed into a larger scheme containing dozens and dozens of "language families."  None of the language families are related to any other language families, so if you think about it, the great differences and high levels of complexity get really mind-boggling.\n\n(Just a note: the previous answers are way off - Latin, Greek and Sanskrit are all are part of the same family: Indo-European.)\n\nWikipedia has a decent website outlining the language families -- if you're interested, you might want to check it out.\n\nHere's an excerpt:\n\nThe largest language families in terms of number of languages are:\n\nNiger-Congo (1514 languages) \nAustronesian (1268 languages) \nTrans-New Guinea (564 languages) (validity disputed) \nIndo-European (449 languages) \nSino-Tibetan (403 languages) \nAfro-Asiatic (375 languages) \nNilo-Saharan (204 languages) \nPama-Nyungan (178 languages) \nOto-Manguean (174 languages) (number disputed; Lyle Campbell includes only 27) \nAustro-Asiatic (169 languages) \nSepik-Ramu (100 languages) (validity disputed) \nTai-Kadai (76 languages) \nTupi (76 languages) \nDravidian (73 languages) \nMayan (69 languages)
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According to Ethnologue, "The number of languages listed for Nigeria is 521. Of those, 510 are living languages, 2 are second language without mother-tongue speakers, and 9 are extinct."
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I speak 10\nThey are:\nEnglish, \nSpanish\nChinese\nFrench\nHindi\nFijian, \nPunjabi, \nBoshpuri, \nGujarati, \nTongan\n\nI have lived all over the world and picked the languages as i moved around (in case you were wondering and wanted to know)