2006-07-04 04:59:43 · 9 answers · asked by cool 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
over 6000.
2006-07-04 05:13:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋
Scientific counts range from about 3000 to about 8000. It all depends on how you distinguish between the notions of "language" and "dialect". Most linguists say "about 6000". To get an idea of where these languages are in the world, imagine six individuals who each speak 1000 languages. One of them would live in the Americas, two of them would live in Africa, one of them would live on the Eurasian supercontinent, one of them would live on Australia and all the islands of the Pacific including those usually counted as part of Asia, and one of them would live on the island of New Guinea.
2006-07-04 13:36:05 · answer #2 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 at a time.
2006-07-04 17:03:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are 104 SPOKEN languages in the world todays, all the others are just dialects, or ancient languages
2006-07-04 11:54:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ethnalogue.com quotes that there are 6,912 living languages.
2006-07-04 05:04:03 · answer #5 · answered by heather c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
6,920....with so many languages being derived from latin and anlso some still existing not so ancient languages
2006-07-04 05:12:34 · answer #6 · answered by kida_w 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 6800, to the best estimation of linguists:
2006-07-04 05:03:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
only one ... that's English .. even the aliens speak english too
2006-07-05 02:43:01 · answer #8 · answered by sighspy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
many
2006-07-04 05:22:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋