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There are more than 7,000 known languages in the world

2025-02-22
To be precise, the number I is 7,117but that could change tomorrow as languages become extinct,discovered, or even invented.

Surprisingly, only 4% of them are European. Around 6,000 are indigenous languages, and 90% have fewer than 100,000 speakers.