2007-04-04 14:54:34 · 12 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Check out this website for the Rosetta Project which is documenting all languages spoken on Earth today. They are actively researching languages and dialects with few speakers to capture the knowledge before it is lost. Very, very cool stuff...
Statistically speaking:
2,376 Total Languages
95,254 Individual Text Pages
2,545 Volunteer Contributors
2007-04-04 15:07:08 · answer #1 · answered by AuntLala 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
It is difficult to give an exact figure of the number of languages that exist in the world, because it is not always easy to define what a language is. The difference between a language and a dialect is not always clear-cut. It has nothing to do with similarity of vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation. Sometimes, the distinctions are based purely on geographical, political, or religious reasons. It is usually estimated that the number of languages in the world varies between 3,000 and 8,000.
There is a list of the world's languages, called "Ethnologue" (Grimes 1996). There are 6,500 living languages listed. Of these, 6,000 have registered population figures. 52% of the 6,000 languages are spoken by less than 10,000 people, and 28% are spoken by less than 1,000 people. 83% of them are limited to single countries.
http://www.ling.gu.se/projekt/sprakfrageladan/english/sprakfakta/eng-sprak-i-varlden.html
2007-04-05 05:46:05 · answer #2 · answered by Martha P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I Am Not Sure Of How Much Are Them, But U Need To Make The Details, Coz Besides Languages There Are Dialects Too!!!
2007-04-04 15:11:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No one would know for sure, but it is said there are more languages spoke in the West Papua province of Indonesia, then the rest of the world combined.
2007-04-04 14:57:38 · answer #4 · answered by mega h 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
in terms of the main places, English and French (not almost as lots yet nonetheless signifcant). related to style of persons who communicate the language, English accompanied via Madarin chinese language.
2016-10-02 04:55:01 · answer #5 · answered by barnell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By some estimates there are roughly 6,800 languages spoken on this planet.
2007-04-04 14:57:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
7
2007-04-04 14:56:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋
I don't think anybody made a count of it, or one that is THE correct count.
2007-04-04 14:57:13 · answer #8 · answered by Seraph 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
about 7,889 including dilects! Hope i helped!!!!!!!!!!
2007-04-04 14:58:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
i always wanted to know that too! when u figure out let me know. all i know is
french
spanish
english
hindi
hindu
swahili
polish
italian
nigerian....um....if thats a um...er..lol....language..
i dont know...lemme know plz
2007-04-04 14:57:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋