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    Jun 11, 2012, 12:58 PM
    World languages
    How many languages are there ?
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    Jun 11, 2012, 01:03 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by firaszeineddine View Post
    how many languages are there ?
    Give me a couple of days, I will count them and get to you
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    Jun 11, 2012, 01:05 PM
    You can Google this --

    From How Many Spoken Languages --

    There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers.

    The most popular language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 1,213,000,000 people in the world that speak that language. You might also like our list of the most widely spoken languages in the world.

    —The Editors, Infoplease.com

    Wiki claims about 7300 main languages and a huge number of dialects.
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