There has not been any source till now which has mentioned an exact number of languages spoken in the world. But it is presumed that the figure lies somewhere between 6000 and 8000.The Ethnologue contains statistics for 7,105 languages. It is perplexing to note that India alone is home to 455 languages.
Language |
Family |
| Mandarin | Sino-Tibetan, Chinese |
| Spanish | Indo-European, Romance |
| English | Indo-European, Germanic |
| Hindi | Indo-European, Indo-Aryan |
| Arabic | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic |
| Portuguese | Indo-European, Romance |
| Bengali (Bangla) |
Indo-European, Indo-Aryan |
| Russian | Indo-European, Slavic |
| Japanese | Japonic |
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