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Apprxoimately how many official languages are there?

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Melissa taing

This is a tough question to answer. Depending on the source, the number usually ranges anywhere between 5000 and 6000. It also depends on how you define "official" language. Ethnologue cites 6,909 "known living languages".

04:03, 6 April 2011

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