How many languages are there on earth?
As you look at the map of the continents, imagine that by some estimates there are roughly 6,800 languages spoken on this planet. 96% of them are spoken by a mere 4% of the world’s population. The exact number of languages may never be determined exactly. Ethnologue estimates that 2,200 are spoken in Asia, 2,060 in Africa, 1,300 in the Pacific, 1,000 in the Americas, and 230 in Europe. Which countries have the greatest number of languages? Half of the world’s languages are spoken in only eight countries. Papua-New Guinea 832 Indonesia 731 Nigeria 515 India 400 Mexico 295 Cameroon 286 Australia 268 Brazil 234 Why is the exact number of languages difficult to determine? Firstly, we don’t know enough about many of the languages. Linguistic surveys in many parts of the world are incomplete. Some languages have yet to be discovered. Lots of languages h
