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minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoNo way there are 600+ languages. What do they count? English, Old English, Middle English, Slightly Older Than Middle English, The English Mel Gibson Spoke In Braveheart…?
minus-squareGenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoI just looked this up and apparently Papua New Guinea alone has over 800 languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_languages There are over 7000 languages in the world according to https://www.ethnologue.com/
minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoAnd 43% of people speak languages from the Indo-European family. I just finished reading Proto which explains how this happened. It’s a wild story.
No way there are 600+ languages. What do they count? English, Old English, Middle English, Slightly Older Than Middle English, The English Mel Gibson Spoke In Braveheart…?
I just looked this up and apparently Papua New Guinea alone has over 800 languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_languages
There are over 7000 languages in the world according to https://www.ethnologue.com/
And 43% of people speak languages from the Indo-European family. I just finished reading Proto which explains how this happened. It’s a wild story.