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Originally Posted by big-larry
There are more than 2,796 known languages and dialects in the world. Then there are also the tongues of angels. Not to mention the language of groanings which cannot be uttered with articulate speech.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnologue
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of
SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a
Christian linguistic service organization which studies lesser-known languages primarily to provide the speakers with
Bibles in their native language.
The Ethnologue contains statistics for
6,912 languages in the 15th edition, released in
2005 (up from 6,809 in the 14th edition, released
2000) and gives the number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliations, availability of the
Bible, and so forth. It is currently the most comprehensive existing language inventory, along with the
Linguasphere Register. However, some information regarding more esoteric languages is quite dated.
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I take it this does not include dead and extinct languages
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