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.
Language families. The study of the origins of languages and their classification into families is traditionally known as philology. For various reasons it is not possible to be precise about the number of languages in the world, but most philologists agree that there are between 6,000 - 7,000 living languages. These languages are divided into about 100 language families; the exact number is dependent on the classification paradigm.