The most expensive type of divorce in California is one involving children, according to our survey results. When a California divorce involved child custody and support issues, the average cost was $21,800, including $17,000 in attorneyâs fees.
Languages by world area. Ethnologue lists 6,912 living languages in the world today. 389 languages (5.6% of all known languages) are spoken by at least one million people and account for almost 94.1% of the worldâs population. The remaining 94.4% of languages are spoken by only 5.9% of the worldâs population.
Approximately 7,000 languages are spoken in the world today.2 Every one of them is tied intimately to its speakers' ethnic and cultural identity. But with colonialism and globalization, smaller languages are being abandoned in favor of major ones, and languages are disappearing at an alarming rate.