Re: VMs: [OT] Known languages

[Leonard Fox <rockandhawk@xxxxxxx>]

Most estimates run to between 4,000 and 6,000 languages currently spoken. It
would be impossible to estimate the number of extinct languages that have
left no written traces. In any case, of the presently spoken languages,
UNESCO predicts that between 50 and 90 percent will be extinct within the
next hundred years (personally, I think that 90% is quite unnecessarily
pessimistic).

Leonard


on 08/19/04 18:24, DANA SCOTT at dscott520@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Hard to say:
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> http://www.ling.gu.se/projekt/sprakfrageladan/english/sprakfakta/eng-sprak-i-v
> arlden.html
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> 
> Regards,
> Dana Scott
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> 
> 
> 
> 
>> From: ajb <ajb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> Subject: VMs: [OT] Known languages
>> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:21:30 +0100
>> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> Would any of the experts subscribing to this list be kind enough to
>> offer as opinion for a rough estimate as to how many known languages
>> there are or were in this world? That is, languages current and extinct
>> that may reasonably be considered as separate and individually
>> recognisable systems of communication?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Anthony
>> 
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