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TOTAL. 6,703. The 2005 edition lists 6,912 living languages -- this is not because 209 languages have been created in the past 9 years, but because of a combination of a more complete inventory and some decisions about how many speech communities to distinguish as languages.
Report Abuse. 1  RE: 2  I think it is ~1.5 billion people can communicate in English. 3  Please don't start every word with a capital letter, it looks bad.  percent worldpopulation speak 1  english. This question is worth people's attention.  Here's a list of the world's most spoken languages: