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Re: languages

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 12:24:18 +0200 (CEST)
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 Mystery1881~at~aol.com wrote:

> vs editions in each language. I don't think there are 1500 separate
> languages, so there must be some fudging on the "most translated" idea.

Actually, there are some 6800 known languages, of which 2261 have a
writing system! Of course, the number depends on what you want to call a
'separate language'. See http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html and
http://www.ethnologue.com/language_index.asp

Garmt.
Received on Mon 23 Aug 2004 - 13:46:05 IDT

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