2006-06-19 15:04:51 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
The numbers vary in scientific counts from 3000 to 8000. Most linguists use 6000 as a good number for how many languages there are in the world.
To give you an idea of the language diversity in the world, if we took six people and each of them represented 1000 languages, one of them would live in the Americas, one of them would live in Eurasia, two of them would live in Africa, one of them would live in Australia and all the islands of the Pacific and Asia, and one of them would live on the island of New Guinea.
2006-06-19 15:56:41 · answer #1 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you includes varieties of languages that are similar, it's around 5000-6000. There are lots of Islands that are the only places to find some languages.
2006-06-19 22:37:46 · answer #2 · answered by Jeremy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one thing i know for sure is that there are more than thousand different languages in the world besides english ..
good question just to educate other americans
2006-06-19 22:17:10 · answer #3 · answered by steels_hawk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are round about 6,703 languages in the world that are spoken
2006-06-20 09:13:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jules Verne said that there were approximately 2,000 languages and 4,000 dialects
2006-06-26 19:47:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Around 6,000, with one-fifth spoken in New Guinea alone.
2006-06-20 08:36:21 · answer #6 · answered by J9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ethnologue lists 6,912
2006-06-20 21:09:53 · answer #7 · answered by zberryfunk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spoken.
you speaka de english?
2006-06-19 22:09:43 · answer #8 · answered by cap'n snuggles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm not sure, but there has GOT to be at LEAST three.
2006-06-20 02:39:08 · answer #9 · answered by nelent01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2,505
2006-06-19 22:09:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋