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 written languages in the world.
There are approximately 30 to 35 click languages spoken in the world.
There are approximately 7,117 languages spoken in the world today.
As of 2011, the Ethnologue catalogue lists 6,809 languages.
The extensive catalogue of world languages details 6909 distinct languages
six thousands more languages in the world
There are approximately 7,000 written languages in the world.
There are approximately 30 to 35 click languages spoken in the world.
There are approximately 7,117 languages spoken in the world today.
As of 2011, the Ethnologue catalogue lists 6,809 languages.
The extensive catalogue of world languages details 6909 distinct languages
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As of 2012, Enthnologue lists about 6800 distinct languages in the world.
Ethnologue, the most complete survey of the world's languages, lists 6,909.
There are many languages in the world.Ifact there r more than 329 languages r spoken in india.and the no.of total languages r 4009.how many languages spoken in the world?In India there are 1618 languages spoken and in entire World its 6912
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 around 7,000 living languages estimated in the world today.