Languages of the World
[Pages:65]Languages of the World
Gerhard J?ger
University of T?bingen, October 19, 2010
Introduction
How many languages are spoken today?
Ethnologue (2005): 6 912: table 1
Number of speakers varies substantially
languages per continent
Africa Americas Asia Europe Pazific
How many languages?
many languages in Europe
How many languages?
ca. 150 languages in Europe, 40 the Caucasus alone
Around 7,000 languages world-wide
high diversity around the equator
(data from 1999 edition of Ethnologue)
language
Mandarin Spanish English Hindi Portuguese Bengali Russian Japanese German Wu (China) Javanese Telugu Marathi Vietnamese Korean Tamil French Urdu Yue (Kantonese) Turkish
number of native speakers (Mill.)
873
322
309
181
177
171
145
122
95
More recent data source
77
76
70
68
67
67
66
65
61
55
51
Quantitative distribution
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