2006-07-11 08:52:27 · 8 answers · asked by firelizard 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
about 7,300 main languages
about 39,491 alternate language names and dialects
2006-07-11 08:57:13 · answer #1 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 102
2006-07-11 15:56:25 · answer #2 · answered by spiker_90910 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are lots of ways to answer that based on how you categorize a language. Is a creole or pidgin a language unto itself? What about the various forms of sign language? How different do languages have to be before you stop considering them to be dialects?
A good idea of the complexity of your question can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_languages
2006-07-11 15:59:16 · answer #3 · answered by kevinngunn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
over 5000
2006-07-11 15:59:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think more than 200
2006-07-11 15:58:10 · answer #5 · answered by quikboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think 60
2006-07-11 15:55:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think its probably 847
2006-07-11 15:59:00 · answer #7 · answered by Projectrevo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
6703
2006-07-11 15:55:58 · answer #8 · answered by Josh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋