It is hard to find how many languages in the world exactly but the invaluable Ethnologue quotes 6909 living languages, that's one language for every 862,000 people on Earth. Let's look at some more figures from Ethnologue's database.
Europe, with ¼ of the World's population has only 234 languages spoken on a daily basis.
Although English does well as the World's business language-at least for the time being- it is only 3rd in the league table of native speakers of a first language, with 328M, only 1m behind Spanish but a long way from the 845M Mandarin speakers.
94% of languages are spoken by only 6% of the World's population, which tells us that there are hundreds of languages with just a few thousand [or hundred] speakers.
Many of these languages would be classified by some as dialects i.e. languages that have evolved from but are still quite closely related to another. This definition, of course, falls down very rapidly as most Western European languages can trace their roots to Latin but would not normally be described as dialects. Some of the African and Caribbean Patois are still seen as dialects, as was Ulster-Scots until fairly recently when it was recognised as a language. People consider top ten languages in the world which are Mandarin, the leading languages that covers 1 billion speakers all over the world. The second one is English, considered as the universal language, then next are Hindustani,Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian and lasted to French.
There are approximately 7,000 languages spoken in the world. However, many of these languages are endangered and are at risk of extinction.
There are approximately 7,117 languages spoken in the world today.
There are approximately 7,117 languages spoken in the world today.
There are approximately 7,117 spoken languages in the world, although this number can vary depending on different sources and definitions of languages.
There are approximately 7,000 languages spoken in the world.
There are approximately 7,117 known languages spoken in the world today. However, many of them are endangered with a high risk of extinction.
six thousands more languages in the world
The Ethnologue catalogue lists 6,809 languages spoken in the world. Languages are classified according to family groups,based on common ancestry.
indira gandhi known 26 languages of India and 13 languages of world
There are currently a number of 6,912 living languages spoken in the world to this day. There are a total of 165 indigenous languages around the world. Only eight are spoken by as many as 1,000 people. More languages are spoken in Queens, NY than in any other part of the world. Hope that helped.
There are an estimated 6,700 recognized languages in the world. Most of them are spoken by fewer than 1,000 people.
All languages are completely developed, but the exact number of them is unknown.
I don't know how many but I know that Ireland is one of them. English and Irish are the offical languages here.
there are about 6700 known languages in the world today
Darius in many languages is a name. This means that is pronounced the same way in all languages in the world.
You already know 1 language there are 6,499 left to learn ,there are 6,500 languages In the world today.
All languages have numbers, and most languages of the world use an alphabet. There are too many to list.
if there are 1 lakh laguages around the world then there are thet many languges of news papers in the world.