The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Sharon Small, Nathaniel Parker, Lesley Vickerage, Paul Hickey, Catherine Russell, Shaun Parkes, June Watson, Anjalee Patel Search
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.
When people are asked how many languages they think there are in the world, the answers vary quite a bit. One random sampling of New Yorkers, for instance, resulted in answers like âprobably several hundred.â However we choose to count them, though, this is not close.ne might suppose, therefore, that linguists would have a clear and reasonably precise notion of how many languages there are in the world. It turns out, however, that there is no such definite countâor at least, no such count that has any status as a scientific finding of modern linguistics.