How many languages in the world?
By amitkapur
@amitkapur (21)
India
December 15, 2006 11:41pm CST
Hey
Just curious, how many languages do we speak in the modern world today? Does anyone has a count?
1 response
@the_dutchess (2610)
• Philippines
16 Dec 06
There are 6,800 known languages spoken in the 200 countries of the world. 2,261 have writing systems (the others are only spoken) and about 300 are represented by on-line dictionaries as of May 11, 2004.
