Over 7000 languages are spoken across the world today. Chinese, the language with the most native speakers, has 13 variations, whilst Similarly, Arabic has 20 variations


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1. What is the number of the languages existing in the world?
Over 7000 languages are spoken across the world today. Chinese, the language with the most native speakers, has 13 variations, whilst Similarly, Arabic has 20 variations, reflecting the wide range of countries and cultures it is spoken in
2. How many Indo-European languages are there in the world?
There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an estimate by Ethnologue, with over two-thirds (313) of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch.
3. What are modern Germanic languages?
Some 50 modern Germanic languages are spoken today (Ethnologue) .
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1. How many Germanic languages are there in the world?
The Germanic languages include some 58 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects that originated in Europe; this language family is part of the Indo-European language family. Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages.
2. What groups of Germanic languages do you know?
Germanic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family. Scholars often divide the Germanic languages into three groups:1) West Germanic, including English, German, and Netherlandic (Dutch);2) North Germanic, including Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Faroese; 3) and East Germanic, now extinct, comprising only Gothic and the languages of the Vandals, Burgundians, and a few other tribes.
3. What are the three branches of the Germanic languages?
Germanic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family. Scholars often divide the Germanic languages into three groups:1) West Germanic, including English, German, and Netherlandic (Dutch);2) North Germanic, including Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Faroese; 3) and East Germanic, now extinct, comprising only Gothic and the languages of the Vandals, Burgundians, and a few other tribes.
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1. What are modern Germanic languages?
All Germanic languages are derived from Proto-Germanic, spoken in Iron Age Scandinavia. The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English with around 360–400 million native speakers; German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch, with 24 million native speakers.
2. Are all the Germanic languages spoken in Europe?
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.
3. Is there any East Germanic language spoken nowadays?

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