2006-09-13 04:45:12 · 5 answers · asked by rmorris264 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
1,000,000 english words up to 2,000,000 (see below)
David Crystal, in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, suggests that there must be at least a million words in the language. Tom McArthur, in the Oxford Companion to the English Language, comes up with a similar figure. David Crystal further says that if you allow all scientific terms the total could easily reach two million (this doesn’t count the formal names for organisms I spoke about earlier, just technical vocabulary).
Approximately 600,000 in the normal vocabulary English language.
See Oxford.com
2006-09-13 04:50:36 · answer #1 · answered by CigarMe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In what language, please?
Do you have any idea how many languages there are?
Some languages are almost extinct (unused because the people have been assimilated into other cultures) , are you counting those also?
What about pictographs which were used in some anchient languages? Are you going to count them also?
2006-09-13 12:02:13 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are too many to count
2006-09-13 11:52:36 · answer #3 · answered by Baby Girl 24 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
too many
2006-09-13 11:52:37 · answer #4 · answered by fatdawgs_room 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lots
2006-09-13 11:46:12 · answer #5 · answered by curious2002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋