Linguistic diversity
Nowadays
there are between 5,000 and 7,000 languages in the world. It is difficult to know
the exact number of languages because the distinction between a language and a dialect
is not always clear. In fact languages are not isolated entities and in many
cases there are no clear boundaries between them, it is rather a continuum that
extends along a geographical area.
Linguistic
diversity has been defined in a broad sense as the ‘range of variations exhibited
by human languages. The Ethnologue
considers that there are 6,912 languages in the world today, but some of
the languages included are just considered varieties or dialects in other
accounts.
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