How many language are there in this world?

I write now what i know so far to start this ok.

Pls write down the numbers as follow so that we can know how many are there so far we have discovered.

1.English
2.Chinese
3.Malay
4.Korea
5.Hokkien
6.French
7.German
8.Vietnamese
9...pls continues with number 9 ok

I think finding out how many languages in the world would be impossible.
Because during wars, even sending code messages was a language.
But there are millions and millions of languages.

Aside of agreeing with "wush", languages have been made along time ago and are now not used. Some languages aren't even spoken any more. Also, like wushu said, there are over millions and millions of languages. Some people create their own language and some continue to use them. But there could even be billions. In some places in the world, in countries, some states or territories have their own languages. Indians had their own languages - some aren't even used any more - codetalkers - like wushu said - is a sort of language. It would be pretty much impossible to list them all. Thats like asking someone "Can you name every single state (province, territory - what ever you want to call it) in the existing world. Pretty hard, no? It might take a couple of years just to receive half the languages in the world.

Honestly, not to offend you - no offense - but I don't think many people apply to this site to list many languages. They wont take there time researching as many languages as they can. Besides, once done, (which I highly doubt), what will you achieve?

hey go here..
there are tons of languages on this site.

http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/hello.htm

Besides, there are old lenguages like Old Norse, Old German, and some lenguages we woudn't even know about. Like the ones that some tribes in Africa make up and have basically no name in our language.

That is sooo nuts i cant believe there are that many languages... i mean that is a good question.. i never thought to think that there were sooo many languages out there!!!! thanx for the link Nirmala

Nirmalamaya ur link is great thx.So far 800 languages found and still used in the world.

9.Spanish
10.japanese

creole
trinidadian
hawaiian
cantonese & manderin (2 types of chinese)
id name more but im going out to buy candy

There are only Two.

The ones you speak

The ones you don't.

I do know that an African Tribe language is called Zambawe (Z-am - bow - we)

true true

Doing a little research - found out that slang is actually condisdered a language. Theres over thousands and thousands of types of slang (country, brooklyn accent, etc.) that it would take years to complete half.

There are so many I bet everyone forgot
hillbilly
gettho
pig-latin
sign
no seriously now I would never know the exact number of languages but I betcha alot more than we think.

Totally agree with you on that. And getting even more detailed - like "crystalmoon" mentioned, hillbilly is slang - considered a language. Going detailed, there are different kinds of hillbilly (correct word would be country slang). Texas, Wisconsis, Montana, etc.

Including wolf, bear, cat, and all the other animal languages?

Very True! That is considered a language in one way. Let me just state something clear. It is IMPOSSIBLE to list all languages - but have fun trying.

"There are 6,800 known languages spoken in the 200 countries of the world. 2,261 have writing systems (the others are only spoken) and about 300 are represented by on-line dictionaries as of May 11, 2004."

Abenaki
Apache
Azeri
Yemba
Walloon
Uyghur
Zarma
Uzbek
...And so on.

Interesting facts -

i com from small country in europe-LATVIA....

i`m speaking in latvian, russian and english...german too

it`s about 20> languages and about 50> dialekts in whole world

My 3 year old son has made up his own language. maybe his will catch on lol

Lol. Theirs also some more rare African tribe languages I found:
Ambuwini
Zibowow
Acozoo
Shimpiz
Nazcanini
Zembanga Meno or Mino - not sure

don't forget body-language! woohoo!

According to this site, there are 6,800 known languages in the world.

h4x0r language heheheh! probably the first language that is used in the internet.

1 t3h l337?

I agree with Wush, although I live in England, Im not classed as English as I was born in Wales Uk but I dont speak the Welsh Language....Most people from the South of Wales dont speak it but in the North of Wales , Welsh is more fluent...Athough I do know how to say phrases in Welsh such as:
My name is Deadly Nightshade
Rydach yn aown Deadly Nightshade.

There are countless languages in the world

Arabic
American
Austrian
Australian
Bangladeshi
Burmese
Dutch
Danish
Greek
French
Finish
Patwa
Welsh
Engish
Japenese
Indian
African
Irish
Latin
Egyptian
Hebrew
Norwegan
Portugese
Cantonese
Gaelic
Israeli
Spanish.........and so on
I could go on and on and on for the list is endless.......even code is used today as a way of communication.....
It is an interesting topic though as it stats one wondering.

With Love and Light.

Deadly Nightshade.
xxx.

Yes! True - body language is a form of language! Face expressions as some specialists said are in a way of form language? Strange, but true> And theirs millions of body languages including/especially sign language.